IMPROVING THE FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT BY USING STICK FIGURES AT SDN DAWUHAN LOR 5 LUMAJANG IN THE 2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

The result of the observation and students’ vocabulary achievement in the first cycle did not achieve the target of the research (75%) of the students actively participated in the teaching learning process of vocabulary and got score ≥ 65. The average percentage of the students’ active participation in the first cycle was 68.81%. Moreover, the result of students’ vocabulary achievement test showed that 29 of 30 students or 58.62% of the students got score ≥ 65. It means that the percentage of students’ active participation and vocabulary achievement test did not achieve the target of the research yet. It might happen because of some problems. They were as follows: the teacher did not write the word related with the picture, the teacher usually used full English in the teaching learning process, and the size of pictures were small. Therefore, the action cycle was continued to the second cycle by revising some problems that happened in the first cycle. The revisions were the teacher wrote the word related with the picture so the students could memorize the word, the teacher used English and Bahasa Indonesia to make the students understand with the explanation, and the teacher made the stick figures bigger.