THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STORYTELLING USING THE CHARACTER OF DORA THE EXPLORER TO INCREASE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AT THE FOURTH GRADE OF SDN 1 GANGGENG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

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.