IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH INTENSIVE READING AT THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 1 PAGELARAN

IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT
THROUGH INTENSIVE READING AT THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS
OF SMA NEGERI 1 PAGELARAN

By
Eva Mayang Sari

A Script
Submitted in a Partial Fulfillment of
The Requirement for S-1 Degree
in
The Language and Arts Department of
Teacher Training and Education Faculty

TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY
LAMPUNG UNIVERSITY
BANDAR LAMPUNG
2015

ABSTRACT
IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT

THROUGH INTENSIVE READING
By
Eva Mayang Sari
Vocabulary is the main content of language. People use vocabulary to construct a
sentence to express the idea. By having a lot of vocabularies, people can express
more ideas. The mastery of vocabulary is essential in order to construct sentences
that contains some messages for social interaction. It is an impossible to learn
language without vocabulary. Therefore, English teachers should be able to
provide the best method that can improve the students’ vocabulary achievement.
The researcher tried to propose intensive reading as a method to improve the
students’ vocabulary achievement.
The aim of this research was to find out whether there was a significant
improvement of the students’ vocabulary achievement after they were taught by
using intensive reading. This research was quantitative research which used one
group pretest posttest design. The population of this research was the first year of
the students of SMA N 1 Pagelaran. The sample of this research was X 3 class
which consists of 24 students.
The data were analyzed by using t-test formula in SPSS 20.00 for windows. The
result of the research showed that there was a significant improvement of the
students’ vocabulary achievement after they were taught by using intensive

reading. It could be seen from the result of the mean score from the pretest to the
posttest, which was 64.29 in the pretest and improved to 72.54 in the posttest. The
statistical result also proved that the students’ scores improved significantly
because t table (4.456>2.068), p

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