The Implementation of Natural Approach To Improve Students’ Achievement In Vocabulary

Abstract

This research entitled Implementation of Natural Approch Method to Improve Students’ Achievement in Vocabulary. The aim of this research was to improve students’ achievement in vocabulary by used Natural Approach Method. The students have difficulties in remembering new vocabulary and focused to understand the vocabulary. The students think that English was difficult and boring. To improve students’ vocabulary, the researcher used Natural Approach Method as teaching method to helped the students in increasing their vocabulary. Classroom action research was use in this research. It contents of two cycle, each cycle consists of planning, acting, observing and reflecting. Based on the result of this research, shown that there was improvement on the students’ vocabulary achievement. It can be seen from the average score of pre-test was 54.62, post-test cycle I was 69.68, and post-test cycle II was 88.25. with the increased of percentage Classical learning mastery was 25% of pre-test, 62.5% in cycle I and 93.75% in the cycle II. Learning english with Natural Approach Method was success in improving students’ vocabulary achievement at the firstgrade of SMP Negeri 3 Binjai in academic year 2019/2020. Finally the researcher suggest to the teachers that they should used Natural Approach Method as the method for teaching and learning process in term of vocabulary.