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more interesting. The last aspect was the classroom situation. There were 24 students in the class. This number was actually quite big. The teacher in fact
found difficulties in controlling the class. The result was the class became so noisy. This condition made the process of the teaching and learning ineffective
because the teacher spent too much time to manage the class and to calm the students which were sometimes did not work. Therefore, a new technique is
needed to work out those problems. The researcher decided to use Play School DVD as the media in conducting this action research.
B. Preparation of Action Research
To identify the students’ problems in vocabulary mastery, the researcher observed the class to see the teaching-learning process done by the teacher and the
students, and conducted a pre-test. A pre-test was conducted on Tuesday, February 28
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, 2011. The purpose of doing the pre-test was to identify the students’ vocabulary mastery. Before the test
was applied, it had been tried out in another class. The purpose was to get a valid and reliable instrument.
The total number of students was 24 and all of them joined the pre-test. According to the result of the pre-test, it can be concluded that the students’
vocabulary mastery was low. It was shown by their scores. Below is the chart of the complete distribution of the students’ scores of the pre-test.
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Figure 4.1 The Chart of Pre-test Scores
The chart shows that one student got 80.83. Two students got above 60, and 21 students got below 60. The highest score is 80.83 and the lowest is 12.92.
Those resulted 38.87 for the average of this test. A complete data about students’ pre-test result can be found in Appendix 6.c.
Another important consideration was about the students’ score viewed from their skills. The average of students’ score in pronouncing the word was
46.53, in spelling the word was 34.17, in understanding word meaning was 59.17, and in using the word in a sentence was 15.625. For more complete data, it can be
found in Table 4.1.
10 20
30 40
50 60
70 80
90
1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Pre-test Scores
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Table 4.1. The Students’ Scores on Vocabulary Mastery on Pre-test Viewed from Their Aspects.
Vocabulary Aspects Highest
Lowest Average
Pronunciation 83.33
16.67 46.53
Spelling 80
34.17 Word meaning
80 35
59.17 The use of word
100 15.625
The percentage of the students based on the result of their scores viewed from their vocabulary aspects can be seen in Table 4.2 below.
Table 4.2 The Percentage of the Students Based on the Result of Their Scores Viewed from Their Vocabulary Aspects.
Vocabulary Aspects 60
≥60 – 79 ≥80
Pronunciation 18 students
4 students 2 students
75.00 16.67
8.33
Spelling 17 students
5 students 2 students
70.83 20.83
8.33
Word meaning 10 students
12 students 2 students
41.67 50.00
8.33
The use of word 21 students
1 student 2 students
87.50 4.17
8.33
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The level of the students’ vocabulary mastery can be seen in the following table.
Table 4.3 The Level of Students’ Vocabulary Mastery Based on Their Pre-test Result
Percentage Interpretation
Number of students N=24
81-100 Very good
- 61-80
Good 3 students
41-60 Fair
5 students 21-40
Poor 13 students
1-20 Very poor
3 students
From the table above, it can be seen that the vocabulary mastery of 21 students 87.5 were low and 3 students 12.5 were at Good level.
C. Research Implementation 1. Description of Cycle 1
