5. Implementation in giving the students practice for making vocabulary cards helped the students to memorize new vocabulary and understanding
instruction easier by implementing the instructions of text. It helped the students to run the vocabulary cards game easier. Various practices made
the teaching and learning process became more interesting. 6. The implementation of asking the students to bring a dictionary was
important to help them when they found unfamiliar words in learning vocabulary. It implies that the teacher has to ask the students to bring their
dictionary during the English teaching and learning process. 7. The implementations of giving rewards encourage the students to perform
their best. It also helped the passive students to be more involved the game actively. It implies that the researcher can give rewards to motivate the
students to learn more.
C. SUGGESTIONS
In reference to the conclusions and the implications of the study, some
suggestions are directed to English teachers and other researchers.
1. For the English teacher It is important for the English teacher to improve the quality of the
teaching and learning process by applying an interesting media which are enjoyable and motivating to improve the studen
ts’ vocabulary mastery. The English teacher can use vocabulary cards game in teaching vocabulary to
stimulate the students in producing new words. The researcher realizes that in applying vocabulary cards game, the class will be noisy as happening in this
research. Therefore English teacher should pay attention to the class condition.
2. For the other researcher The focus of this study deals with improving students’ vocabulary
mastery. To the other researcher can further explore some techniques to improve stu
dents’ vocabulary mastery from different angles. Or the other researcher is recommended to develop this action research in order to find
other effort in the aim of improving students’ vocabulary mastery through vocabulary cards.
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