U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 9, No 1 (2020): U-JET

Improving students’ vocabulary achievement through story completion technique at SMPN 8 Bandarlampung

Okta Listianingsih (University of Lampung)
Sudirman Sudirman (University of Lampung)
Dedy Supriyadi (University of Lampung)



Article Info

Publish Date
24 Feb 2020

Abstract

The objectives of the research were to investigate the effect of the implementation of Story Completion Technique in improving students’ vocabulary achievement in learning English, and also to find out students’ participation. The research design was one group pretest and posttest. Then, the sample of this research was class VIII F of SMPN 8 Bandarlampung in academic year 2018/2019. The data were collected by using objective vocabulary test and observation sheet. The statistical result by using SPSS 16 proved that the students’ score improved significantly with the significance value was p0.005 (p=0.000). The students’ mean score is 3.93 and in the post-test mean score is 6.20. It also affected on students’ participation in the aspect of asking, they frequently asked questions. Based on the finding, it can be concluded that teaching English by using Story Completion Technique could improve  students’ vocabulary achievement.Keywords: improve, vocabulary, story completion technique

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...