THE EFFECT OF USING NUMBERED HEADS TOGETHER TECHNIQUE ON THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT AT SMP NEGERI 6 JEMBER IN THE 2012/2013 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

SUMMARY The Effect of Using Numbered Heads Together Technique on the Seventh Grade Students’ Vocabulary Achievement at SMPN 6 Jember; Eka Kusumasari, 080210401001; 2013: 44; English Language Education Study Program, Language and Arts Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Jember University Vocabulary is the basic thing in language learning. Many people who learn language cannot understand the words or sentences if they do not know the meaning of the words. Vocabulary plays an important role in developing the students’ skills of English speaking, reading, listening and writing. When the students want to express their ideas or feeling they need more vocabularies to speak and write. By having a lot of words the students can communicate easily and more effectively. Numbered Heads Together technique can be an alternative in teaching vocabulary. Numbered Heads Together technique gives positive effects to the students; such as they learn how to cooperate with each other, every student will study harder because they do not want to become a loser, learn how to lose but still have a big motivation to get a maximum score and to be the winner, and how to give appreciation to each other. This research was an experimental research. The purpose of this research is to know whether or not there is a significant effect of using Numbered Heads Together technique on the seventh grade students’ vocabulary achievement at SMPN 6 Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year. The area of this research was SMPN 6 Jember. It was chosen purposively because the use of Numbered Heads Together as a technique of teaching English had never been applied in teaching learning process at this school. The respondents of this research were the seventh grade students of SMPN 6 Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year. Homogeneity test in the form of vocabulary achievement test was applied to know the homogeneity of the population.