Expanding Students’ Vocabulary Mastery Using Pictures at Junior High School

Ryan Rayhana Sofyan(1*),

(1) Department of English Education, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Makassar, Indonesia
(*) Corresponding Author



Abstract


This research aimed at finding out whether or not pictures can improve students’ vocabulary mastery. Pre-experimental design was applied in this research with one group pre-test and post-test design. The population of this research was the seventh-grade students of Junior High School 27 Makassar, academic year 2018/2019 which consisted of 3 classes. This research instrument used vocabulary test consisted of word form, word meaning, and word use as the research instrument. The result of this research showed that the application of pictures can improve students’ vocabulary mastery. It was proved by the value of the t-test 17.683 which was greater than the value of t-table 1.70 the level of significance (p)= 0.05 and degree of freedom (n-1) =27.


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Expanding; Vocabulary; Pictures; Junior High School

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