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vocabulary, in the contrary many students, 60 couldn’t do the task
easily. It means that most of them faced the problem in vocabulary and thought the used technique could not help them in developing their
vocabulary because not all of the words are given by teacher. So that, they hard to do the task. The last, there were only 6 students or 20 of
them stated that they had rich vocabulary. It means that most of students’ ability in vocabulary was still low.
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Related to the result of pre questionnaire above, it can be concluded that there were needed to improve the students’ positive response after
the implementation of the action. Therefore, the CAR was done.
c. The Result of Pre Test
The Pretest was conducted as the preliminary study or done before Classroom action research CAR
to identify the students’ real competence and problems in vocabulary. In pretest, the students
assigned to answer some question related to their competence in English vocabulary and students understanding on part of speech
especially noun, verb, adjective and adverb, there were 20 questions in multiple choice and 10 in matching, this pretest was conducted on
Monday 14
th
March 2011. In doing this test the students carried out the test during 40 minutes.
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See Appendix 3a-3b.
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Table 4.1 Students’ grade in pre-test
Respondents Pre-Test
Student 1 62
Student 2 63
Student 3 37
Student 4 59
Student 5 63
Student 6 33
Student 7 51
Student 8 56
Student 9 50
Student 10 33
Student 11 47
Student 12 56
Student 13 76
Student 14 50
Student 15 45
Student 16 51
Student 17 54
Student 18 39
Student 19 62
Student 20 50
Student 21 54
Student 22 56
Student 23 42
Student 24 50
Student 25 36
Student 26 39
Student 27 42
Student 28 31
Student 29 48
Student 30 53
MEAN 49.6
student who passed the KKM the scores are processed from students’ answer sheets
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To get the result of pretest, firstly, the researcher calculated the mean score:
_ = 49.6 X
Then, to the percentage of students who passed the KKM score, the researcher used the following formula:
100 x
N F
30 100
5x
6 .
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Based on the result of the pre test, the data showed that the mean score of pretest is 49.6. There were only five students or 16.6 of the
students who got the score above the Minimum Mastery Criterion- Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal KKM meanwhile the other 25 students
were below that criterion. From that analyzing, it could be seen that almost of first
grade of MTs. Nurul Falah students’ vocabulary was still very low.
_ ∑x
X = ── n
_ 1488
X = ── 30
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After analyzing the result of preliminary study, it could be conclude that most of the students at first grade of MTs. Nurul Falah
had small vocabulary size and low understanding on part of speech especially in noun, verb, adjective and adverb. So, it needs to find out
the solution to overcome this problem. The researcher used vocabulary card as the technique in teaching vocabulary as an innovation in
teaching learning process. The action needed to retain students’
vocabulary. The action research conducted in two cycles. Every cycle followed the procedures of action research involving planning, acting,
observing, and reflecting. Every cycle was conducted in three meetings. The following was the explanation of the action research results.
2. Findings of the First Cycle
