time to make it. Furthermore, she never did vocabulary test after teaching the material.
Because the teacher said that she had never done vocabulary test, the researcher decided to appl
y a diagnostic test. The test was intended to know the students’ weaknesses in English, whether in vocabulary or not. The consideration to make the
test items was based on the materials had been taught. Based on the information from the English teacher, the materials given were about simple present tense, simple past
tense. She had not taught many material because it was just the beginning of the new year academic. Information about diagnostic test would be provided in the following
part.
4.4 The Result of Documentation
There were two kinds of data gotten from documentation. The results of documentaion method were about the names of the research respondents and the
students’ dianostic score. The respondents in this research were the students of VIII C at MTs N 1 Jember in the 20142015 Academic Year which consisted of 31
students.
4.5 The Result of Diagnostic Test
Diagnostic test was conducted to know the students’ weaknesses in learning English. The test was conducted two times. The first test was conducted to know the
lowest class, while the second test was conducted to know more about the weaknesses of the lowest class. The first test was conducted on 11, Agust 2014 and
the second one was conducted on September 13, 2014. The allocation time of each test was 50 minutes. There was a difference between test items in the first test and the
second one. The test item of first test consisted of vocabulary only. However, the second one consisted of all the material that had been taught to the students. They
covered simple present tense, simple past tense, and vocabulary included noun, adjective, adverb and verb. There are two kinds of verbs included in the test, they
were bare infinitive verb and regulars and irregular verbs. The total number of the test
item was 25. The diagnostic test had been consulted to the English teacher to know the appropriateness of the test items with the students level of comprehension.
The first test was administered in class VIII A, B, and C to know th elowest class. The results were that 36 of the total number of VIII A students got the
standard score. Besides, there were 30 of the total number VIIIB got the standard score, and VIIIC was just 27. It can be concluded that the VIII C students was the
lowest class. Then, to convince more about the weaknesses of the students of VIII C, they were given one more test
Based on the result, there were 15 48.38 of 31 students got the standard minimum score in that school 75. There were many students still got the score
below the standard minimum score. In fact, the students made many mistake in aspect of vocabulary in particular regular and irregular verbs. In conclusion, the students still
had a problem with vocabulary mastery in the form of regular and irregular verbs. The result of diagnostic test became the consideration of the focus of the research.
Thus, this research focused on improving the students’ achievement on regular and
irregular verbs.
4.6 Discussion
