THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DERIVATIONAL EXERCISE IN TEACHING VOCABULARY

Abstract

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah derivational exercise meningkatkan kosakata siswa dan untuk menelaah permasalahan yang dihadapi mereka di pembelajaran kosakata melalui derivational exercise. Desain penelitian ini adalah kuantitatif. Subjek penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas XI IPA 2 di SMA YP UNILA Bandar Lampung. Peneliti menggunakan dua instrumen pengambilan data: test kosakata dan wawancara Data dianalisis dengan Repeated Measure T-test. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa nilai rata-rata test awal adalah 54.91 dan nilai rata-rata test akhir adalah 70.35. Peningkatan dari semua nilai tersebut adalah 15.41. Hasil dari wawancara bisa diklasifikasikan bahwa sebagian masalah yang dihadapi siswa adalah bentuk dan penggunaan kata di dalam konteks. Jadi dapat disimpulkan penerapan derivational exercise dapat membangun kreativitas dan produktivitas siswa di dalam mengembangkan kata dan juga meningkatkan pencapaian kosakata.

This research was intended to find out whether derivational exercises improve students’ vocabulary and to investigate the problems that the students face in learning vocabulary through derivational exercise. This research used a quantitative research. The participants were students of SMA YP UNILA Bandar Lampung, class XI IPA 2. Researcher used two data collecting techniques: vocabulary test and interview. The data were analyzed by using Repeated Measure T-test. The results showed that the mean score of pretest was 54.94 and the mean score of posttest was 70.35. The improvement of those score was 15.41. The result of the interview can be classified that the most problems that students face were the form and use the word in the context. So, it can be concluded the implementation of derivational exercise could build up students’ creativity and productivity in building a word and also improve their vocabulary achievement.

Keywords: achievement, derivational exercise, vocabulary.