| dc.description.abstract | The Use of Spide rgram to Improve t he VII D Students’ Vocabulary Achievement at
SMP Al Irsyad Banyuwangi in the 2011/2012 Acade mic Year; Ana Zulfia; 050210401167; 41
pages; English Education Program Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of
Jember; 1. Dra.Siti Sundari, M.A, 2. Drs. Bambang Suharjito, M.Ed.
This research was a classroom action research. It was intended to improve the seventh
year students‟ vocabulary achievement. The research subject was the students of class VII D.
The research subjects were chosen because most of the students got less than 70 in vocabulary,
in which 70 was the standard minimum requirement (KKM/Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal). They
had difficulties in class. The students of VII D had problems in categorized whether a word is
noun, verb, adjectives or adverbs.
This classroom action research was conducted in two cycles in which each cycle covered
the planning of the action, the implementation of the action, observation and evaluation, data
analysis, and the reflection of the action. This research used observation and vocabulary test as
the primary data collection methods. Observation was used to observe the s tudents‟ p articipation
during the teaching learning process of vocabulary by using Spidergram. Vocabulary test was
used for measuring the students‟ vocabulary achievement after they were taught in the actions.
The test materials covered two area of large vocabulary which was nouns and verbs.
The classroom action research was successful if 70% of research subjects taking the test
get score 70 as the minimum score (SKM/Standar Kelulusan Minimal), and if 75% students are
active in the vocabulary teaching learning by using spidergram. In Cycle 1, the result of the
vocabulary test showed that there were only 11 students who got score ≥70. In other words, the
percentage of the students who got scores at least 70 in Cycle1 was 52, 4% of 21 students. The
mean score was 67,6, in the other hand, the result of observation showed that there was 76, 2%
of the students who were active in the teaching learning process of vocabulary by using
spidergram. In conclusion, Cycle 1 was failed to achieve the targeted minimum requirement of
the vocabulary mean score, but had improve the students‟ active participation. Still, it had to be
continued to the Cycle 2.
In Cycle 2, the result of the vocabulary test showed 71, 4% of the students got score ≥70.
The mean score improved from 67, 6 in Cycle 1 to 71, 4 in Cycle 2. The result of observation
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also showed a significant improvement that there were 88, 1% of students were categorized as
active students. Most of the students took part actively in the vocabulary using spidergram
teaching learning process. Based on the results both of the vocabulary test and the observation in
Cycle 2, it could be concluded that it had already achieved the objective of the research.
Therefore, the research stopped in Cycle 2. It means that the action of teaching vocabulary by
using spidergram could improve t he s tudents‟ vocabulary achievement. | en_US |
