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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION
This chapter discusses about the result of the research that describes some findings and discussions about the use of suggestopedia in improving students’
English vocabulary mastery. The research was conducted in collaboration with the English teacher of SMP 4 Widodaren. When the research was conducted
collaboratively, the researcher and the teacher work together. The teacher was as the observer and the researcher was as the practitioner who implemented the action. The
teacher and the researcher collaboratively in design, plan, revise the research procedures and discussed the research result as a reflection. The research was divided
in two sessions. Those were pre- research and implementation of action research.
A. Pre- Research
Pre- research was conducted before doing an action research. The aim of the pre-research was to identify the problems that happened during the teaching
learning processes dealing with students’ vocabulary mastery, to identify the teachers’ techniques in teaching vocabulary and to identify the students’ motivation
in learning English, especially learning English vocabulary. The research covered several steps: 1 interviewing the teacher and the students, 2 observing the teaching
learning process, 3 observing the data of the test result and 4 giving pre-test to the students.
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The result of the observation of pre- test showed that in teaching learning process, the teacher used teacher- centered approach. In the teaching learning process,
the teacher had important rules and did not allow the students to be active and the students had no freedom to explore their idea and feeling. Besides that, the teacher
never used a media that can help the students mastered more vocabulary. In teaching English especially English vocabulary, the teacher just asked the students to
memorize the words of the text dealing with the material in the LKS. The students just memorized the text without understanding what mean by the text. They worked
hard to memorize the text to get the target that was conducted by the teacher. They could memorize perfectly. In few days later, they lost the words which they
memorized. Finally, the students got nothing from their activities. The interview also showed that the students were still low in motivation to
learn English. Almost the students considered that English was a difficult subject and had no important rules in their life. Another fact that indicated the students were low
in motivation, they felt that they had no an ability to learn and master English Based on the observation and interview, the problems could be identified into
two categories: First, the students’ achievement of vocabulary mastery was low. It could be seen from some indicators: 1 The students get difficulty to memorize the
words, 2 The students get difficulty to pronounce the words, 3 the students’ score was still low, and it was under the standard score of KKM English subject. 4 The
student has no motivation in learning English
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The second category deals with the classroom situation: 1 the students make a noise in teaching and learning process of English class; 2 the students tended to be
passive learners; 3 the students were not willing to speak English during teaching learning process; 4 the students paid little attention toward their teacher’s
explanation during teaching learning process; and 5 the students were lazy to do homework
From the interview, observation and students’ score, could be concluded that 1 the students’ vocabulary achievement were low, 2 the students were passive in
teaching learning process, 3 students were low in motivation to learn English vocabulary. From the teachers’ side, the teacher still used the monotonous technique.
To overcome the problems above, the writer decided to bring new method using suggestopedia in improving English vocabulary mastery and in improving their
motivation during teaching learning process
B. Research Implementation
