Improving students’ vocabulary achievement through story completion technique at SMPN 8 Bandarlampung

Okta Listianingsih, Sudirman Sudirman, Dedy Supriyadi

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The objectives of the research were to investigate the effect of the implementation of Story Completion Technique in improving students’ vocabulary achievement in learning English, and also to find out students’ participation. The research design was one group pretest and posttest. Then, the sample of this research was class VIII F of SMPN 8 Bandarlampung in academic year 2018/2019. The data were collected by using objective vocabulary test and observation sheet. The statistical result by using SPSS 16 proved that the students’ score improved significantly with the significance value was p<0.005 (p=0.000). The students’ mean score is 3.93 and in the post-test mean score is 6.20. It also affected on students’ participation in the aspect of asking, they frequently asked questions. Based on the finding, it can be concluded that teaching English by using Story Completion Technique could improve  students’ vocabulary achievement.

Keywords: improve, vocabulary, story completion technique


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