The effect of using collocation technique on students’ vocabulary mastery at SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan

Agustina, Sari (2017) The effect of using collocation technique on students’ vocabulary mastery at SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The purpose of this research was to examine the effect of using collocation technique on students vocabulary mastery before and after using the technique at SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. The researcher found that students’ mark in vocabulary mastery was unsatisfied. The students’ problem in vocabulary mastery were: the students still get low because not all students study English in elementary school. Second, many students are lack of vocabularies and the students are low interest and motivation in learning English. Furthermore, students’ are lazy and passive in the class. Beside the students’ problem, teacher’s strategy also became a problem in learning vocabulary. The teacher still used the conventional strategy and did not have variation in teaching vocabulary. The method used in this research was experimental research where the researcher chose two classes as the sample. They were VIII-1 as experimental class that consisted of 31 students and VIII-2 as control class that consisted of 22 students. In this research, the researcher gave pre-test and post-test in selected response fill-in vocabulary task form. Meanwhile, the data was derived from interview, pre-test, and post-test. After the data have been analyzed, the researcher found that there was an improvement of mean score after using collocation technique. Mean score of experimental class before using collocation technique was 60 and mean score after using collocation technique (H0) was 77. 27. The effect of collocation technique on students’ vocabulary mastery (Ha) was 2.176 with t0 is higher than tt (2.176> 1.683). It means that there was a significant effect of collocation technique on students’ vocabulary mastery at grade SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan.

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