Students’ Vocabulary Achievement in Grade VII A at SMPN 7 Jember by Using Visual Media

DOI

10.2991/klua-18.2018.49How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Pop-up pictures, Teaching Media, Visual Media

Abstract

This paper explained about how to improve the junior high school students’ vocabulary achievement by using visual media namely Pop-up Pictures. The research design used is Classroom Action Research (CAR). The data collection methods of this research were interview, observation, documentation, and vocabulary achievement test. The research participants were students of grade VII A at SMPN 7 Jember. The research area was chosen by using purposive method. This research was held collaboratively between the researcher and the English teacher. It was done in two cycles while each cycle consisted of three meetings. Based on the results and discussions it could be drawn as follows: 1. The use of Pop-up Pictures could improve the VII-A grade students’ vocabulary achievement at SMPN 7 Jember. It was proved by the result of vocabulary test that shows there was improvement of the percentage of the students who got scores at least 80 from 80.6% in Cycle 1 to 83.3% in Cycle 2; 2. The use of Pop-up Pictures improve the VII-A grade students’ participation in teaching and learning process of vocabulary at SMPN 7 Jember. It was proved by the result of observation that there was improvement of the percentage of the students’ participation from 86% in Cycle 1 to 88.9% in Cycle 2. It means that the objectives of the research were successful. So, the English teacher was suggested to use Pop-up Pictures as alternative media for teaching vocabulary to improve students’ participation and the students’ vocabulary achievement. Moreover, the future researchers who have the similar problems were suggested to use these results as a reference to conduct another research dealing with improving the students’ vocabulary achievement by using Pop-up Pictures with different skills or different level of the research subjects.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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