A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON THE FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY TESTED BY USING SINGLE PICTURES AT SDN SUMBERJATI 01 JEMBER

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A Descriptive Study on the Fourth Grade Students’ Vocabulary Mastery Tested by Using Single Pictures at SDN Sumberjati 01 Jember; Dedi Nur Cahyaning, 070210491024; 2014:42 pages; English Language Education Study Program, Language and Arts Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Jember University. The design of this research was a descriptive quantitative research because it was intended to describe the fourth grade students’ vocabulary mastery by using single pictures at SDN Sumberjati 01 Jember in the 2013/2014 academic year. This research focused on the students’ vocabulary mastery after they had learnt the vocabulary materials. Using single pictures in this research refers to the students’ mastery in vocabulary by doing a vocabulary test by using single pictures which the vocabulary indicators to be measured covered nouns (common nouns), verbs (Transitive action verb), and adjective (qualitative adjectives). Based on the interview and documentation, the fourth grade English teacher of SDN Sumberjati 01 has used single pictures as media in teaching vocabulary. The media of the vocabulary teaching has an important role on vocabulary mastery. Through pictures, the students are helped to remember the words and the meanings that have been taught by the teacher. The pictures should be selected based on the themes or subthemes suggested in the curriculum. Pictures are also a stimulus which can provide assistance to children in making transition from recognizing an object and naming them. Furthermore, the problem of this research was “How is the fourth grade students’ vocabulary mastery tested by using single pictures at SDN Sumberjati 01 Jember in the 2013/2014 Academic Year?”. The research area was at SDN Sumberjati 01 Jember. This school was chosen based on purposive method. It was chosen purposively because the use of single pictures in learning vocabulary had been applied in teaching learning process in this school. Then, the research respondents of this research were the fourth grade students of SDN Sumberjati 01 Jember in the 2013/ 2014 academic year. The research respondents were determined by population method from all of the students in the fourth grade because the total number of the fourth grade students of SDN Sumberjati 01 Jember was not more than one hundred. The number of the fourth grade students of SDN Sumberjati 01 Jember in the 2013/2014 academic year were 42 students. The data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of vocabulary test, interview, and documentation. The score of vocabulary test was collected from the students’ vocabulary test to know their vocabulary mastery. In this research, the collected data was analyzed by using two methods, they are descriptive qualitative and quantitative method. The vocabulary test was intended to obtain the primary data. Then, it was analyzed by using the formula. Meanwhile, the interview and documentation results were described to complete and support the primary data. Based on the data analysis, on the average, the students’ vocabulary mastery by using single pictures was classified as good category (Mean=74). It was in the range score of 70-79. This result was supported by the results of the vocabulary indicators. The vocabulary test consisted of large vocabulary those are common nouns, transitive action verbs, and qualitative adjectives. The average score of common nouns was 71.4 or good category, transitive action verbs was 56.3 or poor category, and qualitative adjectives was 65 or fair category. The highest score was 90 and the lowest score was 55. There was 1 student or 2.4% who got the lowest score 55. There was 1 student or 2.4% who got the highest score 90. It means that most of the fourth grade students of SDN Sumberjati 01 Jember in the 2013/2014 academic year have enough vocabulary mastery by using single pictures. The results of the scores in this research were “Good”. The results of vocabulary test showed that 97.6 % students got score above 60 and 24% of the students got score below 60. The results of the research showed that teaching and testing English vocabulary by using single pictures could help the students to improve the students’ vocabulary mastery in English language learning. Media can be one of the ways to get students’ interest and motivation. Wright (1989) has suggested that “young learners like doing activities related to drawing or looking at pictures”.