| dc.description.abstract | 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”. | en_US |
