Reasons for Choosing the Topic

supposed to be measured and when it is tested to the same respondents in the same time and place, it will meet the constant result.

1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic

The title of the study is “The Use of Multiple-Choice Completion to Measure Students’ Vocabulary Mastery.” The reasons why I choose the topic are based on some considerations, as follows: Firstly, vocabulary, which is one of language components in English, plays an important role in students’ English learning itself. This is since it covers all aspects including the four skills writing, reading, speaking and listening related to the process of teaching and learning in the classroom. Nevertheless, it usually gets less attention from teachers of English because they think that vocabulary could be learned through experience. Secondly, when learning vocabulary, the learners will get some difficulties, especially in remembering all vocabulary items that they have obtained at school because the safe capacity on their brain is not like a Processor Pentium that is able to save many files or data for a longer time. Therefore, I could also say that vocabulary learning takes a lot of time. Even though it needs a lot of time to study vocabulary, it still could be reached by providing some exercises to the learners and asking them to use every new vocabulary item that they have got in their daily activities like writing a letter or reading some sophisticated materials novel, short story and newspaper. The reason why they have to use it repeatedly is because when they forget about the vocabulary item they’ve learned, they are able to recall it by rewriting another interesting thing. At last, it is probably hard for me to measure one’s knowledge in vocabulary in order to gain the objective result without using the appropriate instrument. Based on the reason, I try to make use of multiple-choice completion by focusing on some considerations, as follows: 1 It is economical in time 2 It is easy in scoring 3 It is very statistical in collecting the data 4 It is valid in computation 5 It is very useful to measure one’s knowledge in vocabulary

1.3 Statement of the Problem