| dc.description.abstract | In learning English, vocabulary is the most basic language component that is important to be mastered. Language learners need to master a lot of vocabularies to achieve the language skills. Vocabulary achievement is important to the students to improve their communication competence. Thus, vocabulary plays a very essential role in language teaching. Teaching vocabulary to students is not an easy thing to do because each student has different style, different need, and different interest, different capability, and different perception . Due to that reason, media are needed to help students understand the meaning of vocabulary easily. The use of ‘Pop-Up’ books as the appropriate teaching media is useful to facilitate the learners to learn and enjoy the teaching and learning process. This research was an experimental research. The purpose of this research was to know whether the use of ‘Pop-Up’ books on the eighth grade students' vocabulary achievement at SMP Negeri 5 Jember in the 2017/2018 academic year was significant or not. The area of this research was SMPN 5 Jember. It was chosen purposively because they have never been taught by using ‘Pop-Up’ books at this school. Another reason was the permission to conduct this research in this school from the headmaster has already accepted.
The population of this research was all of the eighth grade students of SMPN 5 Jember in the 2017/2018 academic year. The research respondents were determined cluster random sampling by lottery because based on the analysis of the result of homogeneity test by using ANOVA, all classes of the eighth grade was homogenous. The total number of the respondents was 76 students, consisting of 38 students of grade VIII-A as the experimental group that was taught | en_US |
