THE EFFECT OF APPLYING MULTI MEDIA VCD FOR TEACHING VOCABULARY TO THE FIRST GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 5 STABAT

Abstract

This study was aimed to find out the effect of using multimedia VCD on the students’ achievement in vocabulary. This study were finding out is there any significance effect of applying multimedia VCD for teaching vocabulary and to find out the students’ difficulties in mastering vocabulary. The population was 258 students and the sample of this research was took two classes of the population of 63 students which were chosen by using cluster random technique and divided into experimental group and control group. This research was conducted by the experimental research. The instrument of the study was dividend into pre-test and post-test consist of 20 items of multiple of choice test about verb. Based on the analyzing the data, it can be concluded that there were effects of applying multimedia VCD for teaching vocabulary proven by the result of the tobsorved compared to ttable, it was tobserved >ttable (4.31>1.67). The students difficulties were: a) Students often mistakes the vocabulary in the sentence, or do not know how put the vocabularies in the sentences, b) Students do not know about the form of vocabulary such as participle and past verbs, present participle verbs, and c) Students often mistakes in using the vocabularies into a sentence which accordance to the tenses.