The Effect Of Word Mapping Strategy Toward Students’ Vocabulary Of The First Grade Sutdents at SMPN 1 Bengkalis

Ulfa, Asila (2019) The Effect Of Word Mapping Strategy Toward Students’ Vocabulary Of The First Grade Sutdents at SMPN 1 Bengkalis. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Abstract

A lot of learning strategies that can help students to master vocabulary in learning English, such as talking stick, word mapping, picture book, scrabble, guessing picture and debate. However, what the students need is the strategy that can facilitate them but still can give the optimal result. Based on this explanation, the researcher get interest to use word mapping strategy in order to help the students in enrich their vocabulary. Word mapping is visual organizer strategy that contains main word which is connecting with other related words. The purpose of this research is to find out the effect of Word Mapping Strategy toward students’ vocabulary of the first grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Bengkalis. This research uses Experimental research as the procedure of assessing and analyzing the data. This kind of research involves two groups which are an experimental group and a control group. The researcher gave pre-test and posttest for both of class but only gave treatment for experimental class. The test is about vocabulary that contains 30 items in multiple choice, gap fill items, and matching test. For the treatment researcher applied word mapping strategy. After the researcher applied Word Mapping strategy, there is a significant improvement of students’ vocabulary. It can be seen from the data results that already get from pre-test and post-test. Based on the data, the mean score pre-test of Experimental class was 54,23 and the mean score of post-test was 67,80. In the other hand, the mean score pre-test of control class was 56,47 and post-test mean score was 48,03. After the researcher analyzed the data by using SPSS 22 version to test the hypothesis testing of this research, it was found that tobs was 3,182 and t-table value of significant level of 5% was 0,367. It means that tobs > ttable where 3,182 > 0,367. So, based on the results of the data, the researcher concludes that alternative hypothesis (Ha) is approved and the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. Which mean there was significant effect of word mapping strategy toward students’ vocabulary of the first grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Bengkalis.

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