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The third category is the difficulty faced by the students focus on vocabulary. The teacher said that vocabulary was not the difficult
English sub-skills to be learned but the vocabulary were the main things of language, then we have to give a special attention on this sub-skill
without knowledge of vocabulary the students will find many problem in learning language especially English. Whereas the students must
achieve the Minimum Mastery Criterion- Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal KKM then they have to master from the essential things of language in
this case is vocabulary. The s tudents’ difficulty in learning or
memorizing vocabulary is the differences of the word function or part of speech. Consequently, the students confuse to compare the word
stand for in the sentence.
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The conclusion of the interview in term of the students’ difficulties in
vocabulary was the students’ of English first grade of MTs. Nurul Falah still have difficulties in vocabulary in term of part of speech. The
detail result of pre interview can be seen in appendix 1b.
b. The Result of Pre Questionnaire
The pre questionnaire was conducted to obtain the data indicating students’ motivation in learning English vocabulary. The questionnaire
was given to the students in the first year of MTs Nurul Falah on Monday, February 21
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2011. The questionnaire had ten questions which revealed in
three categories, they are the students’ response about teaching-
learning process 2 items, no. 12, the result of the students’ vocabulary learning activity 2 items, no. 34 and the solution of the
problems in vocabulary 6 items, no. 5-10, and all of them are ten items. The table below showed the result of pre questionnaire.
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See Appendix 1a-1b Item Numbers 7-10 of Preliminary Interview.
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The first category
was the students’ response about teaching- learning process in learning English vocabulary. The result showed 90
students were motivated in the teaching-learning process. Next item is students understanding about English lesson, shows that 46.6 of
the students understood the teacher’s explanation. It means that most of the student FIRST grade of MTs. Nurul Falah like English vocabulary
lesson, even though they didn’t mastery English vocabulary yet.
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The Second category
is the result of students’ vocabulary achievement. 53.3 of the students were not satisfied with their score
in vocabulary. So, most of the student were not satisfied in their score is bigger than those who weren’t. Then, only 33.3 students could
answer the teachers’ questions about vocabulary material. It can be drawn that most of the student hadn’t reached a good score which
passed minimum mastery criterion KKM.
The Last category asks the solution of the problem in vocabulary
learning. For the first item , there were so many students who didn’t ask
their teacher if they had difficulties, it’s about 76.6 . It was indicated that the student were not actively involved in the teaching-learning
process and they were shy and not interested in the lesson, then do not ask their difficulty in understanding the materials. Second item, 53.3
students said that their te acher didn’t implement the suitable technique
to solve difficulties in learning vocabulary. It can be predicted that technique used by the teacher was not really appropriate and could not
solve their problems in learning vocabulary mostly. After that, most student answer that their teachers’ technique couldn’t help students
memorize vocabulary easily and get the new vocabulary, it’s about 56.6
of the student. It means that most of them thought the used technique could not help them transferring the given words to their long term
memory and getting the new vocabulary. Next item, 80 students said that their teacher gave exercise to develop students’ ability in
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vocabulary, in the contrary many students, 60 couldn’t do the task
easily. It means that most of them faced the problem in vocabulary and thought the used technique could not help them in developing their
vocabulary because not all of the words are given by teacher. So that, they hard to do the task. The last, there were only 6 students or 20 of
them stated that they had rich vocabulary. It means that most of students’ ability in vocabulary was still low.
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Related to the result of pre questionnaire above, it can be concluded that there were needed to improve the students’ positive response after
the implementation of the action. Therefore, the CAR was done.
c. The Result of Pre Test
