Scripta-English Department Journal
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021)

The Effectiveness of Using Visual Dictionary to Teach Vocabulary at the Grade Students

Rahma Novia Anggraeni (Purworejo Muhammadiyah University)
Abdul Ngafif (Universitas Muhammadiyah Purworejo, Indonesia)
Zulia Chasanah (Universitas Muhammadiyah Purworejo, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
14 Dec 2021

Abstract

This basic problem comes to the students’ low vocabulary mastery, teacher’s low creativity in teaching, infectivity of general dictionary to teach vocabulary, teacher’s low creativity in teaching, infectivity of vocabulary teaching and learning methods currently applied, students tend to get bored in learning vocabulary because of the use of monotonous methods. This fundamental problem then lead the researchers to do research which goal is to find out in which using visual dictionary more effective in teaching vocabulary for junior high school. By applying quantitative research, the researchers did research in SMPN 36 Purworejo. Employing Class 8 A taught using visual dictionaryand Class 8 C taught using general dictionary, the researchers then give 20 questions of multiple choice test to evaluate the result of teaching vocabulary. The result of this research shows that the mean score of 8 A is 81.96 and the mean of 8 C is 74.24. Then, from the computation of inferential analysis, it shows that the result of Zvalue(6.98) is lower than Ztable (1.96).From the result, it can be concluded that use of Visual Dictionary in teaching vocabulary skill at the eighth grade is effective.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

scripta

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Scripta-English Department Journal is Journal that publishes academic articles that recognize successful engaged learning depends on effective partnerships between students, faculty, community agencies, administrators, disciplines, and more. The journal invites submission of 1) Research that ...