IMPROVING THE STUDENTS VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH INTENSIVE READING
Abstract
The aim of this research was to find out whether there was a significant improvement of the students vocabulary achievement after they were taught by using Intensive Reading. This research used quantitative approach and was conducted to 24 students in class X3. The researcher administered vocabulary test in collecting the data. The result of the data analysis showed that there was a significant improvement in students vocabulary achievement after they were taught by using intensive reading. It could be proven from the improvement of students mean score from pretest to posttest, which was 64.29 to 72.54, with t-table was 2.068 and the t-value was 4.456. In short, intensive reading can improve students vocabulary achievement.
Keywords: improving, intensive reading, vocabulary achievement
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