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B. Review on Relevant Studies

Komachali and Khodareza 2012 conducted a study on Iranian per- university students to investigate the impact of using flashcards in improving their vocabulary mastery. The subjects of their research consisted of 50 female students who were divided into two groups: the control group and the experimental group. The control group received the traditional treatment while the experimental group received the vocabulary flashcard treatment. In conducting the experiment, they were given a vocabulary pre-test and post- test to find out the students’ vocabulary knowledge before and after the treatment. The outcomes of the same vocabulary post-test of both groups were compared. The result of the experimental group which given the vocabulary flashcard treatment showed a higher score than the control group which given the traditional treatment. Based on this study, it proved that the use of flashcard in teaching vocabulary make an improvement of the students’ vocabulary mastery. Another previous study was done by Sitompul 2013. He investigated the effect of using flashcard and word list on the grade fifth students’ vocabulary mastery and how their response to both teaching aids in learning English vocabulary. The students were divided into two classes, one class received word list treatment as the control group, and another class who received flashcard treatment as the experimental group. The results showed that after the exper imental group’s vocabulary mastery improved after being taught using flashcard. This group said that they were more motivated in learning English, also they could easily memorize and understand the English vocabulary. On the other 31 hand, the control group perceived that word list was a tedious strategy to teach English vocabulary. Therefore, flashcard is suggested as the media to improve students’ vocabulary mastery. In conclusion, these studies on using flashcard to improve students’ vocabulary mastery showed positive results. Students who received flashcard as their treatment indicated an improvement in their vocabulary mastery than those who did not.

C. Conceptual Framework