Increasing Students' Vocabulary Achievement by Using Silent Way Method at the First Grade of SMP N 3 Way Prngubuan

Anisha Arbhia Ragil, Feni Munifatullah, Gede Eka Putrawan

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Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menetahui apakah ada peningkatan pada kemampuan kosa kata siswa dengan mengunakan metode Silent Way. Jenis penelitian ini adalah kuantitatif. Sampel penelitian ini adalah siswa VII A di SMP N 3 Way Penubuan. Test kosa kata digunakan sebagai alat untuk pengambilan data. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa adanya penigkatan kemampuan kosa kata siswa denan menggunakan metode Silent Way. Dengan ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa metode Silent Way dapat membantu siswa dalam menguasai kosa kata dengan lebih mudah.
This study was aimed at finding out whether there was an improvement in students’ vocabulary achievement by using Silent Way method. This research was quantitative. The subject of this research was class VII A of SMP N 3 Way Pengubuan. A vocabulary test was administered as the instrument of this research. The result showed that there was an improvement in students’ vocabulary achievement by using Silent Way method. This suggests that Silent Way method facilitates the students to master the vocabulary easily.


Keywords: method, silent way, vocabulary


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