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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULT AND DISCUSSION
A. Introduction
As has been mentioned in Chapter I, the purposes of the research are to know whether the use of Play School DVD improves students’ vocabulary
mastery and to find the strengths and weaknesses when Play school DVD is
applied in teaching vocabulary to the first graders of Kalam Kudus Christian Primary School.
According to the result of the preliminary study, the first graders of Kalam Kudus Christian Primary School, especially Class IE, had difficulties in:
a pronouncing words; b memorizing words, both the forms and their meanings, and c using words in a sentence.
From the preliminary study, it was found out that the problems arose because of three aspects. The first one came from the students. They had
difficulties in memorizing the words and their meanings. The students found the process of the teaching and learning boring and uninteresting that made them
unserious in doing the process. The students also felt unconfident to say the words because they were afraid of mispronouncing them. The second aspect was from
the teacher. The teachers sometimes only reviewed the words that had been taught to the students twice to four times. Besides, the teachers should equip themselves
with various interesting media in order to make the teaching-learning process
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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
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