| dc.description.abstract | In learning English, vocabulary is the most essential language component
that is important to be mastered. The language learners need to master a lot of
vocabularies to achieve the language skills. Tarigan (1989:2) argues that the quality
of someone‘s language skill depends on his quality and quantity of vocabulary they
have. The richer someone masters vocabulary, the bigger chance one masters the
language. Without having sufficient vocabulary, anyone will not be able to produce
utterances or sentences and they will also have limited understanding in terms of
listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Teaching vocabulary to the students is not an easy thing, because each student
has certain characteristics and needs different treatment. Because of that reason, the
teacher needs to use a technique that can help the students understand the meaning of
vocabulary easily. The researcher decided to use storytelling with pictures as the
technique to teach vocabulary because almost all students like story. Besides, it can
bring much joy and gives the students opportunities to remember the words and
understand the sentences easily. Therefore, it will enrich their vocabulary
achievement .
This research was conducted to know the eighth grade students’ vocabulary
achievement taught through storytelling with pictures at SMPN 1 Dringu Probolinggo
in the 2011/2012 academic year. The respondent of this research was class 8A
students of the grade 8 at SMPN 1 Dringu Probolinggo who were taken by using
cluster random sampling by taking one class of the eighth grade students which was
pointed by the English teacher as the respondents. The total number of respondents
was 31 students.
The primary data on this research were collected from the students’ score of
vocabulary achievement test, while the secondary data were gained through interview
and documentation. The students’ vocabulary achievement score were collected by
doing the multiple choices and matching test which covered large vocabulary (nouns,
verbs, adjectives and adverbs). The result of analysis by using percentage formula
found that the students’ average score of vocabulary achievement test was 72.1. It can
be said that they were in the level of ‘good’ based on the classification of the score
levels. Meanwhile, the results of analysis on the students’ vocabulary of each
indicator showed that the mean score of the students’ vocabulary of nouns was 87.6,
the mean score of verbs was 64, the mean score of adjectives was 74.4, and the mean
score of adverbs was 60.
From the description above, it can be concluded that the eighth grade
students’ vocabulary achievement taught through storytelling with pictures at SMPN
1 Dringu Probolinggo was good. | en_US |
