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Giving the
Questionnaire January, 26
th
2010 Identifying students’ problems in
vocabulary. Pre-test
February, 9
th
2010 Identifying students’ vocabulary
mastery. Cycle 1:
1
st
meeting 2
nd
meeting post-test 1
February, 10
th
2010 February, 16
th
2010 February, 17
th
2010 Implementing the action plan.
Implementing the action plan. Measuring the students’ vocabulary
mastery after the action. Cycle 2:
1
st
meeting 2
nd
meeting post-test 2
February, 23
th
2010 March,24
th
2010 March, 2
th
2010 Implementing the action plan
Implementing the action plan Measuring the students’ vocabulary
mastery after the action. Interview
after the
action March, 9
th
2010 Knowing the students’ opinion
about the action.
B. Research Findings
1. Identifying the Problem
In doing this research, at first the researcher did the pre research observation to identify problems which occurred in teaching learning process. The
researcher interviewed the headmaster on January, 10
th
2010, with the English teacher and also some students of fifth grade on January, 19
th
2010. Relating the interview with the headmaster, it can be known that there are two English teachers at SD Negeri
Demakan 02. The English teacher who teach fifth grade rarely used media in teaching learning process. While, based on the interview to the English teacher, the researcher
learned that the students had problems in mastering English, especially in vocabulary mastery. The English teacher said that the students still found some difficulties in
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vocabulary and pronunciation. The students could not remember the vocabulary that had been learnt so the teacher should repeat and repeat again. Meanwhile, the
interview with the students also showed the same problems. They had problems in learning English. Most of them said that English is difficult especially in vocabulary.
They said that their teacher never used media in teaching English likes song or picture. The researcher also gave questionnaire on January, 26
th
2010 for students and its aim was
to know students’ problem in learning English. Next, the researcher gave pre test for students. The pre-test was conducted on Tuesday, February 9
th
2010. From the pre-test result, the means score was 63.6. Actually the minimum score that
should be achieved was 7.00. It means that the stud ents’ score was still lower than the
minimum score, so this was an indicator of the problem. To solve this problem, the researcher implemented teaching English using media that can overcome this
problem. In implementing the teaching learning process, the researcher used English song to improve students’ vocabulary mastery. The target of this research was the
improvement of students’ vocabulary mastery concerning more on pronouncing, comprehending the meaning and spelling the words.
2. Implementing the Action Research
