Abstract:
Vocabulary is very important to support four skills in studying English
(listening, speaking, reading, and writing). So, it is a must to master vocabulary
well. There is no exception; the students of elementary school who start studying
English have to, too. Therefore, the researcher conducted the research by using the
technique hoped can help them in mastering vocabulary. The technique is
storytelling using the character of Dora the Explorer.
This research is conducted to find out whether the use of storytelling using
the character of Dora the Explorer is effective or not to increase the students’
vocabulary mastery at the fourth grade SDN 1 Ganggeng in the academic year
2013/2014. This research was held on April 2014. This research is quantitative
experimental research, one-shot case study. The population of the research is used
as the sample of this research because the researcher uses saturated sampling.
They are 17 students. The instrument of this research is test. There are two kinds
of test. They are test before treatment and test after treatment. Then, the result of it
is analyzed using descriptive analysis and inferential analysis.
After the data is analyzed, it results the mean of students’ score before
treatment is 62.94 and the mean of students’ score after treatment is 75.29. Then,
the computation of inferential analysis gets the t-value 4.0307. It is consulted to ttable
with 5% (0.05) significance level with degree of freedom (df) 16. It shows
that t-value is higher than t-table (4.0307>2.120). Therefore, it can be concluded
that storytelling using the character Dora the Explorer is effective to increase
students’ vocabulary mastery at the fourth grade of SDN 1 Ganggeng in the
academic year 2013/2014.
