Abstract
The objective of paper was to find out whether or not the use of Clustering Method could enrich the students’ vocabulary mastery of the second semester students at English Education Department Tarbiyah and Teaching Science Faculty UIN Alauddin Makassar. This research employed quasi-experimental design with two group pre-test and post-test design. The population of this research was the second semester students at English Education Department Tarbiyah and Teaching Science Faculty UIN Alauddin Makassar which is consisted of 78 students. The sample of the research consisted of 60 students which was taken by using purposive sampling technique, 30 students were taken as experimental class and 30 students as control class. The instrument of this research was a written vocabulary used in pre-test and post-test. The result of the data indicated that there was a significant difference between students’ post-test in experimental class and control class. The mean score of post-test (69.6) in experimental class was greater than the mean score of post-test (3.8) in control class. The standard deviation of post-test (8.9) in experimental class was lower than the standard deviation of post-test in control class (13.5). From t-test, the researcher found that the value of t-test (1.87) was lower than t-table (2.042) at the level of significance 0.05 with degree of freedom (df) =58. It means that the use of Clustering Method is unable to enrich the students’ vocabulary of the second semester students at English Education Department, Tarbiyah and Teaching Science Faculty, UIN Alauddin Makassar.
Highlights
Class The following table shows the distribution of frequency and percentage of final score of students‟ vocabulary at the second semester, English Education Department Tarbiyah and Teaching Science Faculty UIN Alauddin Makassar in pre-test in experimental and control class
The result of the t-test statistical analysis showes that there was no significant difference between the experimental class who got treatment by using Clustering Method with control class that was got treatment by Conventional Method, eventhough different both of them were not high enough
It was shown that all data found and discussed in this chapter referred to the acceptance of the null hypothesis. It means that Clustering Method is not effective to enrich the students‟ vocabulary of the second semester students of English Education Department Tarbiyah and Teaching Science Faculty UIN Alauddin Makassar
Summary
After doing research at second semester students‟, the researcher found that the students found difficulties in differentiating among which word is verb, noun or adjective especially when they found complex sentence by using unfamiliar vocabulary for them This method was effective in enriching students‟ vocabulary mastery at second semester students‟ of English Education Department, UIN Alauddin Makassar. Based on the explanation above, the researcher was going to do a quasi-experimental research entitled “The Use of Clustering Method in Enriching Students’ Vocabulary Mastery at English Education Department, Tarbiyah and Teaching Science Faculty UIN Alauddin Makassar”. The research decided to apply Clustering Method in improving students‟ vocabulary mastery because it was enjoyable but it could cover the students‟ attention because it was able to expand students‟ ideas personally by only using one word by giving some themes in the four treatments. The pre-test was given to find out the initial students‟ vocabulary before presenting Clustering Method, and the post-test was given to find out the improvement of the students‟ vocabulary after giving the treatment
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