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The Use of Vocabulary Notebook in Improving Vocabulary Mastery for Young Learners
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apply teaching method by using wordlist.In addition, test instrument must be appropriated to the syllabus of the school to accomplish the purpose of subject.
On the other hand, interview was conducted in this study to get more information about
students’ perceptions in using vocabulary notebook in improving students’ vocabulary mastery. According to Fraenkel and Wallen
1990, basically interview and questionnaire were the same; they consist of questions that should be answered by the sample of the study, however interview
was taken orally.
3.3 Time allocation
The study was conducted in two weeks. Both the experimental and control groups were taught twice a week. However, treatments were only given to the
experimental group. Meanwhile, the control group learns as usual by using lesson plan from the school. Moreover, treatments were done in second to fourth
meeting. The last meeting, post-test was conducted in both the experimental and control groups. The schedule of the research can be seen in the following table
3.2:
Table 3.2 Teaching Schedule
No Experimental Group
Control Group
Date Material
Treatment Date
Material Treatment
1. 13 May
2015 Pre-test
- 29
April 2015
Pre-test -
2. 15 May
2015 Procedural
text: How to Make
Pancake Keeping
vocabulary notebook
30 April
2015 Procedural
text: How to Make
Pancake Wordlist
3. 20 May
Procedural Keeping
13 May Procedural Wordlist
Titeu Ni’matul Istiqomah
The Use of Vocabulary Notebook in Improving Vocabulary Mastery for Young Learners
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2015 text: How to
Make Simple 4.Sandwich
vocabulary notebook
2015 text: How
to Make Simple
Sandwich 4.
21 May 2015
Procedural text: Tomato
Soup Keeping
vocabulary notebook
14 May 2015
Procedural text:
Tomato Soup
Wordlist
5. 27 May
2015 Procedural
text: How to Make
meatball Keeping
vocabulary notebook
20 May 2015
Procedural text: How
to Make meatball
Word list
6. 28 May
2015 Post-test
- 21 May
2015 Post-test
-
3.4 Procedure of the research
Procedure of the study consists of some steps, such as pre-test, post-test, and interviews were conducted to answer research questions. In addition, some
treatments were done after doing pre-test.
3.4.1 Pre-test
Pre-test was conducted in the beginning of the research before the treatments. In addition, pre-test was given to an
alyze students’ vocabulary prior knowledge. It was given to the experimental group and the control group to
collect the data whether those groups had the same ability or not. Pre-test was done by giving 25-item of matching. Pre-test was implemented to 33 students as
the sample.
Titeu Ni’matul Istiqomah
The Use of Vocabulary Notebook in Improving Vocabulary Mastery for Young Learners
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3.4.2 Treatments
The treatments were given to the experimental group. It was done for four times in the class. Moreover, it was performed based on the syllabus of the junior
high school which has been explained earlier. In other words, the control group was taught by using conventional method wordlist.
In conducting the treatment, experimental group got some vocabulary notebook as the mediastrategy in teaching vocabulary
to improve students’ vocabulary mastery
. The treatments explored students’ vocabulary mastery. Furthermore, the treatments were required in omitting students’ anxiety in their
prior knowledge.
3.4.3 Post-test
The procedure of pre-test and post-test was the same. Pre-test was done in the beginning of the study. In contrast, post-test was given after the whole treatments
had been done. In addition, post-test was aimed to analyze whether or not the treatments influences the sample in the experimental group.
3.4.4 Interview
Interview was one of the instruments to gather the data. Moreover, interview consists of some questions that should be answered by the students orally. It is
in line with Arikunto 2006 that the interview can be defined as a dialogue between the interviewer and the sample in order to collect the information
related to the study. The aim of the interview in this study was to get the
