THE USE OF REALIA TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AT FIRST GRADE

Ulfi Andini, Cucu Sutarsyah, Sudirman Sudirman

Abstract


Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah ada perbedaan penguasaan kosa kata siswa setelah diajarkan menggunakan realia dan untuk menganalisis kesulitan mereka dalam belajar kosa kata. Populasi penelitian ini adalah siswa/i SMPN 26 Bandar Lampung. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif. Tes kosakata dan kuesioner sebagai instrumen. Desain penelitian adalah one group pretest post-test. Data dianalisis menggunakan Repeated measures T-Test. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada perbedaan penguasaan kosa kata siswa setelah diajarkan menggunakan realia. Kata benda paling meningkat sementara kata keterangan terendah. Selama proses belajar menggunakan realia, para siswa menghadapi beberapa kesulitan, seperti pengucapan kosa kata dalam bahasa inggris dan kosa kata yang memiliki makna ganda. Kesimpulannya, penggunaan realia membuat siswa lebih tertarik dan mudah untuk memahami dalam proses pengajaran sehingga dapat menjadi media yang baik untuk meningkatkan penguasaan kosa kata siswa.

 

The objectives are to find out whether there is difference of the students’ vocabulary mastery after being taught through realia and to analyze their difficulties in learning vocabulary. The population is the students of SMPN 26 Bandar Lampung. The research used quantitative method. Vocabulary test and questionnaire were used as the instruments. As a design, one group pretest post-test is used. The data are analyzed by using Repeated measures T-Test. The results show that there is difference of the students’ vocabulary mastery after being taught by using realia. Nouns improve better, while adverbs the least. During the learning process, the students have some difficulties, such as in pronuncing difficult words and difficult to understand the words with multiple meaning. In conclusion, the use of realia made the students more interest and easy to understand in teaching process so that it can be as good media for improving the students’ vocabulary mastery.

Keywords: difficulty in learning vocabulary, realia, vocabulary


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