The effect of Using Mnemonic Method on Students’ Achievement in Mastering Vocabulary

Abstract

The objective of the research was to find out the effect of Using Mnemonic Method on students‟ achievement in writing Mastering Vocabulary and to find out the students‟ difficulties in vocabulary by using group Mnemonic Method. The mnemonic is a method to make it easier to remember something more specific terms, the mnemonic means to make a statement or expression, or connecting words, ideas, and fantasies. In other words mean mnemonic method for utilization of memory in certain ways. The population of this research was VII grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 58 Sukaramai, Medan. In Academic year 2016/2017, With total of population was 50 students. They were devided in to two groups: 25 students as experimental group and 25 students as control group. The experimental group was given treatment by group mentoring technique and control group using direct method. The instrument of the research is written test, which used pre test and post test. The result of this research showed that t- observe value was higher than t- table in which tobs >ttable . (12,38 >2,02).The hypotesis was accepted. It means that there were a significant effect of using mnemonic method on students‟ achievement in vocabulary