The effect of using flashcards on students’ vocabulary mastery at seventh grade of SMP Swasta Nurul ‘Ilmi Padangsidimpuan

Siregar, Indra Kurniawan (2011) The effect of using flashcards on students’ vocabulary mastery at seventh grade of SMP Swasta Nurul ‘Ilmi Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

From observation before, the writer found that students’ mastery in vocabulary is low. It is based on identification of problem that students faced. Students cannot master the meaning of vocabulary, they can not add new vocabulary better and also they seldom practice their vocabulary given by the teacher. So that, from the problem above the writer do the research to know how the effect of using flashcards on students’ vocabulary mastery. The population of the research was the students of SMP Swasta Nurul ‘Ilmi Padangsidimpuan. Sixty six students from the population (Sixty six students) were taken as the sample of the research. The sample was divided into two classes. The first class (thirty three students) as the experimental class, while the second class (thirty three students) as the control class. The experimental class was taught by using flashcards. The instrument for collecting the data was fourty multiple choices. To obtain the reliability of the test, the writer used the KR.21 (Kurder Richardson) formula. The computation showed that the reliability of the test was 0,896. The data was analyzed by using t-test formula. The analysis showed that score of the students in the experimental class was significantly higher than that of students in control class at the level of significance 5% with the degree of freedom 60. The t-observed is 3,83 while the t-table is 1,67. Therefore, the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It means that “there is a significant effect of using flashcard on students’ vocabulary mastery.”

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