Improving Writing Skill Vocabulary

39 a person knows with their meanings. Someone can not read, communicate, interact or write in foreign language if heshe does not mastery the vocabulary. In line with statement above, it’s shows that comprehension in reading will reached if someone has large vocabulary size or large of words, because someone can not comprehend what heshe reads if they haven’t a large vocabulary size or lager of words. Direct method technique appears as one of the promising learn concept offering some new views in teaching and learning a second language especially vocabulary learning. Particularly direct method gives the learner the opportunity to think for them selves, compare their thinking with other learner. It is expected in teaching and learning vocabulary that memorializing and spelling the words will be gotten by understanding the meaning with the context of phrase of larger in situation. From the reason above it is expected direct method technique can be suitable methods for teaching and learning vocabulary, although the question of which methods is most appropriate for teaching and learning a foreign language is still under debate. Although none is perfect, some way are expected more successful than others.

F. Research Hypothesis

Based on the theories which were described in the previous sub-chapter about, it could be posed a theoretical hypothesis as follows: by using direct method on students’ vocabulary mastery. Applying using Direct Method could give affect to th e students’ vocabulary mastery. 40

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY A. Place and Time of the Research The research was held at SMA Triguna Utama, which was located on Jl. Rempoa Raya No. 1 Bintaro Pasanggrahan Jakarta Selatan. It was started by observation to the school from 19 April 2012 to 21 August 2014.

B. Method of Study

This pre-experiments for the eff ect of direct method on students’ mastering vocabulary. These activities involved two classes. The writer takes 20 students from each class.

C. Population and Sample

1 Population The population of this research consists of two classes, namely X.A, X.B. The total number of the students were 50. 2 Sample The sample of this research was 40 students, which was divided into two classes, namely X.A and X.B. The writer took two classes for the samples of the research, they are class XA as the experiment class and XB as the controlled class. The experiment class class XA consists of 24 students, but 4 students were absent because of some reasons. And the control class XB consists of 26 students, but just 20 students who follow the pre-test, but 4 students were absent because of some reasons. The writer was taken by using XA randomly as a sample which consist of 20 students. 40