IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY THROUGH PICTURE DICTIONARY AT THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS’ OF MTS NURUL YUSRAH OTING

Abstract

GUSMAN, 2022. Improve students’ vocabulary mastery through a class VIII illustrated dictionary at Mts Nurul Yusrah Oting ,under the guidance of Achmad Taqlidul Chair Fachruddin, S.Pd,. M.Pd and Syamsinar,S. Pd. This study aims to determine the use of a picture dictionary to improve vocabulary mastery of class VII Mts Nurul Yusrah Oting students in the 2021/2022 academic year. This stdudy used a pre-experimental method.Whith one group pretest and posttest design.The reseaarch instrument is a vocabulary test consisting of 20 items. The sample consisted of 16 students from one class using a random sampling technique from a population of 32 class VIII students at Mts Nurul Yusrah Oting in the 2021/2022 academic year. From the results of data analysis showed that students experienced an increase in pretest 50.31 and posttest 80. This indicates that using a picture dictionary can improve students ‘ vocabulary mastery in the eighth grade of MTs Nurul Yusrah Oting. Obtained from the paired samples Test with a sig (2-tailed) value of 0,000 < 0,05, it can be concluded that there is a significant difference between the results of learning English vocabulary using a picture dictionary on pretest and posttest data, then H1 is accepted and H0 is rejected. This means that there is an effect of increasing students’ vocabulary by using a picture dictionary for class VIII students at Mts Nurul Yusrah Oting. Picture dictionaries help students to add new vocabulary more easily because this method motivates students to learn, the writer concludes that using picture dictionaries can increase students' vocabulary.