THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING DRAWING PICTURE TO IMPROVE VOCABULARY MASTERY OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 1 KLIRONG KEBUMEN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

Abstract

English is an international language in around the world. In Indonesia, English is as foreign language. It is introduced from Junior High School. English lesson becomes examination nationaly. Students needs to mastery English. It can be achieved by appropriate media in teaching and learning in classroom. Therefore, teacher should improve students skill of English using effective media. Generally, the students love drawing. Drawing have many advantages. When someone has drawn a picture of a scene, he knows the meanings of the English words that the teacher will use while talking about parts of his scene. The meanings are in his mind before he is given the English word. Therefore, the researcher uses drawing picture as media in teaching and learning in the seventh grade students at SMP Negeri 1 Klirong. Based on the statement above, the purpose of this study is to find out whether using drawing picture is effective or not to improve vocabulary mastery at the seventh grade students at SMP Negeri 1 Klirong, Kebumen in the academic year 2012/2013 This research belongs to pre experimental research design and takes intactgroup comparison. The populations of the research are the seventh grade students at SMP Negeri 1 Klirong in the academic year 2013/2014. There are 253 students in the fourth-grade, so the population is 253 students. The researcher uses random sampling whith takes two classes as sample. It is experimental group and control group. To collect the data the researcher used tests as the instrument, they are pretest and post- test. Pre- test is conducted before the researcher gives treatment to the students. Post- test is conducted after researcher gives after treatment. The type of the test is multiple choice and essay tests which consist of 20 questions. To analyze the test the researcher uses descriptive analysis and inferential analysis. After analyzing the data, the researcher concludes that there is differnt acceptence of sevents grade students SMP Negeri 1 Klirong Kebumen in vocabulary mastery. The result of t- value is 4.550. Based on the 0.05 significant levels, the value table is 1.94. It means that t-test is higher than the value table. That showed on t- table (4.550>1.94). In other words, the use of drawing picture as medium is effective. Based on the result finding, it can be concluded that using drawing picture is effective to improve vocabulary mastery of the seventh grade students at SMP Negeri 1 Klirong Kebumen in the academic year 2013/2014.