A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF VOCABULARY SIZE AMONG DIFFERENT LEARNING STRATEGIES USE
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Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti jumlah rata-rata vocabulary size siswa, menyelidiki startegi yang paling sering digunakan dan paling efektif, dan mengetahui apakah ada perbedaan yang signifikan dari vocabulary size diantara penggunaan strategi yang berbeda-beda. Populasi dari penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas pertama di salah satu SMAN Bandar Lampung. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam mengumpulkan data pada penelitian ini adalah kuesioner berdasarkan penelitian terdahulu yang dirancang oleh Schmitt's (1997) dan uji pengukuran kosakata yang dicapai yang dirancang oleh Sutarsyah (2006). Hasil analisis data menunjukan bahwa jumlah rata-rata vocabulary size siswa adalah 2166 kata. Perhitungan Anova menunjukkan bahwa strategi sosial adalah strategi yang paling sering dan paling efektif untuk digunakan. Sementara itu, semua Fhitung < Ftabel, dan semua signifikansi > 0,05. Hal ini berarti H0 diterima sehingga tidak ada perbedaan yang signifikan dari vocabulary size diantara penggunaan strategi yang berbeda-beda.
This current study was aimed to find out the average of learners vocabulary size, investigate the most frequently used and the most effective strategy, and to find out whether there is significant difference of vocabulary size among different learning strategy used. The population of this research was one of first year students in SMAN Bandar Lampung. The instruments in collecting the data were questionnaire based on Schmitts (1997) study and vocabulary size test by Sutarsyah (2006). The result of data analysis shows that the learners average vocabulary size is 2166 words. The result of Anova calculation showed that social strategy was the most frequently used and the most effective strategy, while, all the Fcount < Ftable, and all of p > 0.05. It means H0 was accepted, that there was no significant difference of vocabulary size among different learning strategy used.
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