THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING CHAIN CARDS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY ON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MTs MUHAMMADIYAH ARGOSARI, KEBUMEN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

Abstract

English is used as the first foreign language. Factors that affect the increase of foreign vocabulary being Indonesian vocabulary is the development of science, technology, arts, and culture. It is be the cause of increasing number of foreign vocabulary that absorbed into Indonesian vocabulary. Vocabulary is one of the important aspects in learning foreign language. The difficulty in understanding the foreign vocabulary is caused by lack of the varied application of learning strategies by teachers especially in learning vocabulary. Therefore, in this research the researcher is interested to improve the students’ vocabulary mastery using chain card on the eighth grade students of Junior High School of MTs Muhammadiyah Argosari, Kebumen. This research is called experimental research. The population of this research is the eight grade students of MTs Muhammadiyah Argosari, Kebumen in the academic year of 2013/2014. The researcher used VIII A which consists of 33 students and VIII B which consists of 33 students. The sampling technique which is used is purposive sampling. The test consists of 35 items. Those are 10 test of completion, 15 test of matching, and 10 test of arranging. The researcher conducted pre-test, and post-test. The researcher taught vocabulary using chain cards as a treatment. Statistically, the researcher analyzed the data by using t-test separated variance. Statistically, the researcher analyzed the data by using t-test sample related. The result of this research shows that there is positive and significant effectiveness of teaching vocabulary mastery using chain card on the eighth grade students of MTs Muhammadiyah Argosari, Kebumen. “Ho” is rejected and “Ha” is accepted.. The mean score of the students’ vocabulary in the post-test is 67.88. It increased from 56.12 in the pre-test result. In analyzing t-test formula, it is obtained that the result of t-value is higher than t-table that is 2.723>1.998. The research findings indicate that the chain card is effective in teaching vocabulary mastery. Based on the result, the researcher suggested that English teacher should use chain card as media in teaching vocabulary mastery in order to make students easier in studying vocabulary.