to repeat after the teacher. And then the teacher writes a list vocabulary on the whiteboard and the student to memorize the vocabulary.
2. Result of Pre Interview
This interview conducted as unstructured interview. It was conducted on Tuesday 1 march 2011 in this part the writer asked some questions to the
teacher about English teaching activities, emphasized on vocabulary skill, the teacher method problem in teaching
learning process. The students‟ difficulties in learning vocabulary, and also his teaching method and technique.
Related to the English teaching learning process, the teacher said that most of the students didn‟t like and students less motivation to English lesson,
because they think English is difficult and uninterested, especially when they studied about vocabulary. The teacher also said that to improve students‟ score
above the KKM 65 is still hard. Next about teachers‟ Problem in teaching learning process and
students‟ problem in learning process, the teacher told that actually the teacher got many problems. When the teacher taught about vocabulary to the students,
students were still difficult to translate from English to Indonesian. Student difficult to make a sentence in English because their vocabulary is limited, and to
mention about a noun, verb, adjective and so on is difficult. The method that the teacher used in teaching vocabulary is
Translation and memorized the vocabulary. It is one of the ways to improve their vocabulary in teaching English.
3. Result of Pre Test
The pre-test was conducted at the beginning of the research. The purpose of this test was to check how far the students‟ understanding about
vocabulary. The
Pre-test was conducted on Wednesday 2 march 2011. There were 29 students who followed this test. They had to answer 20 multiple
–choice items given by the teacher.
The result of the pre-test can be seen in the table below.
Table 4.1 Result of Pre Test
Students’ Number Students’ Score
1. 30
2. 70
3. 25
4. 70
5. 75
6. 35
7. 70
8. 65
9. 70
10. 70
11. 75
12. 70
13. 60
14. 60
15. 45
16. 60
17. 65
18. 50
19. 50
20. 55
21. 70
The Student who passed the Minimum Mastery Criterion- Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal KKM 65
Based on the result of pre- test, the data showed that the mean score of pre-test was 59.48. There were only twenty five students who passed the
Minimum Mastery Criterion KKM. And 14 students who still get the score below the Minimum Mastery Criterion KKM. The highest achievement gained
score 75, and the lowest achievement gained score 25. It can be concluded that the students‟ understanding of vocabulary are still low. Therefore, the writer
conducted the Classroom Action Research CAR by using pictures and the treatments in each cycle are important
to improve the students‟ result.
22. 35
23. 70
24. 75
25. 65
26. 50
