IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY BY USING INDEX CARD MATCH
Keywords:
Pre-experimental, , vocabulary, index card match, matching cardAbstract
The title of this research paper is “Improving Students’ Vocabulary Mastery by using Index Card Match”. It is to fullfill one the requirements to the English Education Study Program of FKIP UNIBBA for sarjana pendidikan degree. There are two purposes of the research paper; those are whether index card match is effective to improve students’ vocabulary mastery of the second grade of Junior High School Handayani 1 Banjaran, and the students’ response towards the Index card match in vocabulary learning. The research method used in this paper is pre-experimental. The population of this research is students of second grade of Handayani 1 Banjaran, and the sample is one class of the second grade having 30 students. The instruments are pre-test, treatment, post-test and questionnaires. The result of the research shows that there is significant difference in the students mean score before and after the treatment by using index card match. The result of the t-test computation shows that the value of the derived t (to) is higher than that of the critical t (t-table) (6.219>2.045). It means that the null hypothesis is rejected, and the alternative hypothesis is accepted. This means that index card match in vocabulary learning is effective. This means index card match method is effective to improve students’ vocabulary mastery. Meanwhile based on on the analysisof the answer of the questionnaire, it can be concluded that the students give positive response, almost all of the students were interested to improve vocabulary using index card match. The use of Index Card match can help and make them easier to improve their vocabulary skill in learning vocabulary.