Objectives of the Study The hypotheses of the Study The significance of the study

1.4 Objectives of the Study

Based on the statement of the problems, the objectives of this study can be stated as follows: 1. To describe how the vocabulary self-collection can be applied to improve students` vocabulary mastery at the eighth grades students of SMP N 3 Ungaran in the academic year 20142015. 2. To measure the effectiveness of using vocabulary self-collection strategy in teaching vocabulary to improve students` vocabulary mastery compared to interactive cloze strategy.

1.5 The hypotheses of the Study

There are three hypotheses in the present study, alternative hypothesis H a and null hypothesis H . 1. H a1 : The students who are taught by using vocabulary self-collection strategy is better than using interactive cloze strategy. 2. H a2 : The students who are taught by using interactive cloze strategy is better than using vocabulary self-collection strategy. 3. H : The students who are taught by using vocabulary self-collection is as effective as with using interactive cloze strategy.

1.6 The significance of the study

The results of this study are expected to give some benefits related to pedagogical, practical and theoretical significance. Pedagogically, it is hoped that this study can help the students become independent learners who have their own strategy to organize and memorize vocabulary in an interesting way through vocabulary self- collection and motivate them to improve their interest to learn English. Practically, teachers hopefully will get new suggestion to improve their strategy in teaching English vocabulary, especially English teacher who teach at eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Ungaran, and motivate them to use vocabulary self-collection strategy as an alternative way in teaching vocabulary to improve students` vocabulary mastery. The result of this study also expected can help the readers to enrich their knowledge about interesting strategy to teach vocabulary. Theoretically, I hope this study can be used as a reference and will help future researchers to get inspiration to follow up the result of this study to improve the quality of English learning teaching process, especially in teaching vocabulary to improve students`s vocabulary mastery more better in the future.

1.7 The limitation of the study