Improving students’ vocabulary mastery through word square modeling at grade VII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan

Mawar, Seri (2015) Improving students’ vocabulary mastery through word square modeling at grade VII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research focused about Improving Students’ Vocabulary Mastery through Word square Modeling at Grade VII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. The objective this research was to find whether teaching vocabulary by using word square modeling can improve students’ vocabulary mastery at grade VII of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. This research was conducted by classroom action research. The participants of this research was students at grade VII of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan consisted of 21 students. This research used test, interview and observation as instrument. Test was used to find out the score of students’ vocabulary mastery, then find out mean score and percentage as formulation. Next, interview and observation were used to know condition and to contribute the test. Based on the result of this research, the students’ vocabulary mastery was improved with percentage in the first cycle 42.85% and in the second cycle was 76.19%. So that, there was 34% improvement. It was suitable with mean score of students’ vocabulary mastery that had been gotten in the first cycle. It was 73 improved into 78.66 in the second cycle. Finally, students’ vocabulary mastery could be improved by using word square modeling. So, it was recommended that word square modeling could be used in teaching learning vocabulary in classroom based on this research.

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