THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECTED PICTURE IN INCREASING STUDENTS' ENGLISH VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT

Abstract

The students’ difficulty in memorizing the English vocabulary is one of problems faced by the students. Therefore, this research was conducted to find out whether there is difference of the students’ English vocabulary achievement before and after the implementation of projected picture and to investigate whether or not it can be used to increase students’ English vocabulary achievement. The research was conducted in SMPN 1 Seputih Banyak, in which VII A as experimental class. The design used was one-group pretest-post test design. The result can be seen from the mean score of the students. The mean score of pretest was 49.58 and post test was 68.48. It means that there is an increase of 18.90. The t-test result shows that t-ratio higher than t-table; the result is 20.846>2.042, with the level of significant is p<0.05 and significance 2-tailed is p=.000. Moreover, based on subtopics taught, it was found that subtopic ‘things at school’ had the highest difference than others. Based on result above, it can be concluded that there is difference of the students’ English vocabulary achievement before and after being taught through projected picture and it can increase the students’ English vocabulary achievement.

Keywords: achievement, increasing, projected picture, vocabulary.