THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GUESSING PICTURE TO IMPROVE THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AT STATE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 6 WADASLINTANG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

Abstract

The objective of this research is to find whether the use of guessing picture is effective or not to improve the seventh grade students’ vocabulary mastery of State Junior High School 6 Wadaslintang in the academic year 2013/2014. In order to support the basic language of English, students should acquire an adequate number of words and should know how to use them accurately. Guessing pictures make people grasp the idea or information clearly even clearer than words, which are expressed spoken or written. This research is quantitative research which is designed as Preexperimental research with paradigm One-Group Pre-test—Post-test. The research was conducted in State Junior High School 6 Wadaslintang. This research is carried out on 24th, 26th, 28th May 2014. The researcher took the seventh grade students of State Junior High School 6 Wadaslintang in the academic year 2013/2014 as her population the sample of this research is class seventh B of State Junior High School 6 Wadaslintang in the academic year 2013/2014. The sampling technique used Purposive Sampling; then, for the instrument of this research is ‘test’ consists of 30 items and it has validity and reliability. The result of descriptive analysis shows that mean score of posttest is higher than pre-test (78,99>65,51) then the inferential analysis shows that tvalue is higher than t-table (3, 49 > 2, 07). Thus, it can be concluded that the hypothesis was accepted. It means that “the use of guessing picture to improve students’ vocabulary mastery of the seventh grade Junior High School students of State Junior High School 6 Wadaslintang in the academic year 2013/2014 is effective”.