The Use Of Video To Increase Students’ Vocabulary Mastery For First Year Students Of SMPN 2 Kuantan Hilir

Abstract

This classroom action research was aimed to study the students’ vocabulary mastery for the first year students at SMPN 2 Kuantan Hilir by implementing video as a media. Teaching vocabulary must be easy and enjoyable for the students. It is intended so the students easy to keep the new words in their mind. One of the ways to learn or teach vocabulary is through video, which is more attractive and appealling to the foreign language learners than the traditional textbook. This research is based on the research question it focusing: Can the application of the video increase the vocabulary mastery of the first year students of SMPN 2 Kuantan Hilir? The results of data analysis revealed that using video could facilitate students’ vocabulary mastery. This study was conducted in two cycles of classroom treatment, each one cycle consists of four stages; Plannning, Action, Observation, and Reflection. The researcher took one class as participants of the study. They were 25 students in class VII 2 of SMPN 2 Kuantan Hilir. The data were analyzed by comparing the result of post test 1 and post test 2 and the minimum criteria of successful action (65). The average score of the first cycle was (62,8), it means that the average score of first cycle was still below the minimum criteria of successful action (65). After two cycles, the post test 2 was given to the students in order to know the improvement of students’ vocabulary mastery after using video as a media. The result of average of post test 2 was 70,7. It can be said that the result of research in post test 2 was succesful because it was over than the minimum criteria of succesful. Moreover, the students’s activeness during the teaching and learning process also improved cycle by cycle. Finally, the researcher got the conclusion that the application of video as a media in learning vocabulary could increase the students’ vocabualry mastery. Using video helped the students to memorize the target words, the students also seemed to be able understand the words easily.