The effect of semantic mapping technique on vocabulary mastery at grade VII students of SMPN 3 Padangsidimpuan

Ardiansah, Zulpadli (2019) The effect of semantic mapping technique on vocabulary mastery at grade VII students of SMPN 3 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discusses about the effect of semantic mapping technique on vocabulary mastery at grade VII students of SMPN 3 Padangsidimpuan. The problems of this research are most of the students get low achievement in vocabulary mastery, and most of them lack of motivation in learning vocabulary, and also most of them do not have good technique on learning vocabulary. So, the students’ vocabulary does not fulfill expectation. The aim of this research is to find out the effect of semantic mapping technique on vocabulary mastery at grade VII students of SMPN 3 Padangsidimpuan. This research employed experimental research. The population of this research was the eleventh grade of SMPN 3 Padangsidimpuan. The total of population were eleventh classes. Then, the sample of the research is 2 classes, experiment class (VII3) and control class VII-4). It was taken after conducting normality and homogeneity test. To collect the data, researcher used test for measuring students’ vocabulary mastery. To analysis the data, the researcher used t-test. Based on the result of the research, researcher showed the description of the data was found that the result of experimental class was higher than control class, and result of Pre test the score of tcount was smaller than ttable (1.59 < 2000), and result of post test the score of tcount was bigger than ttable (8.42 > 2.000). It means that the hypothesis alternative (Ha) was accepted. It was concluded that there was the effect of semantic mapping technique on vocabulary mastery at grade VII students of smpn 3 Padangsidimpuan.

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