A classroom action research on The Use of Picture Cards to Improve the Students' Mastery on Vocabulary at the First Year Students at SLTP Negeri 1 Randuagung

Abstract

This classroom action research was aimed to motivate the students in learning vocabulary and to improve their vocabulary mastery by using picture cards as the teaching media. This research was carried out in the first year students of the third Cawu at SLTPN 1 Randuagung which took one month to implement the two cycles. This research was conducted in collaboration in which the writer was helped by the collaborator both in collecting the data and in implementing the actions. The data about the students'motivation were collected from the results of the written field notes and the data about the improvement of the students'vocabulary mastery were collected from the vocabulary test. The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive quantitative methods.