MOTIVATING STUDENTS IN LEARNING VOCABULARY THROUGH FLASHCARDS

Abstract

This research was intended to find out whether or not flashcards could increase the students’ motivation in learning vocabulary and to investigate the improvement of the students’ vocabulary achievement. The instruments of the research was questionnaire. The score were measured based on the Likert Scale and the range of 1 to 4. The data were analyzed by using Repeated Measured t-test in SPSS 16 for Windows Program. The result of the research shows that the mean score of students’ motivation before they were taught by using flashcards was 68.59 and the mean score after using flashcards was 78.50. At the level significance of 0.01, the result showed that t-ratio is higher than t-table (8.097 > 2.750) with the 2 tail significant p < 0.01 ( p = .000 ). In addition the mean score of students’ vocabulary achievement in pretest was 69.59 and the mean score of students’ vocabulary achievement in posttest was 80.25. Based on the result above, it can be concluded that there was a significant difference of students’ motivation after they were taught through flashcards. It can be said that falshcard could improve students’ motivation in learning vocabulary significantly.
Key words: flashcards, learning, motivation, vocabulary