Abstract:
The aim of this research is to know the level of students’ vocabulary
mastery at the seventh grade students of SMP N 1 SapuranWonosobo in the
academic year of 2015/2016. Besides, the other aim of this research is to find out
whether Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy is effective or not in teaching
vocabulary at the seventh grade students of SMP N 1 SapuranWonosobo.
This research is classified as an experimental research. Moreover, this
research is conducted by using quantitative technique in processing the data and
getting the result. Therefore, the type of this research is experimental quantitative
research. In this research, the researcher took 56 students which are divided into
control (VII F, 28 students) and experimental group (VII G, 28 students) at the
seventh grade students of SMP N 1 SapuranWonosobo in the academic year of
2015/2016. The researcher conducted pre-test and post-test. The researcher
usedVocabulary Self-Collection Strategy as a strategy to teach vocabulary.
Statistically, the researcher analyzed the data by using t-test.
The result of this research shows that Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
is effective for teaching vocabulary for the seventh grade students of SMP N 1
SapuranWonosobo in the Academic year of 2015/2016, since it was found that the
result of t-test is 7.35 based on 0.05 significance level, and the value of t-table is
2.00. Therefore, the computation shows that t-test is higher than t-table that is
7.35 > 2.00.
