The Effect Of Using Jakarta Post Headlines And Sub Headlines as Teaching Media Towards The Students Vocabulary Mastery

Abstract

This research is about the effect of using Jakarta post headlines as teaching mediatowards the students’ vocabulary mastery. The objective of the study is to find outwhether Jakarta post headlines and sub headlines affects students’ vocabulary mastery.This study was conducted by applying experimental quantitative research. The subject ofthe study was the second year students of SMP N.17 Medan. The researcher took VIII-4which consists of 30 students as experimental group using Jakarta post headlines and subheadlines media and VIII-1 which consists of 30 students as control group usedconventional method or without Jakarta post headlines and sub headlines. The populationof this research was 60 students which consist of two parallel classes. The researcher tookboth groups as total sampling to see the effect of using Jakarta post headlines and subheadlines as teaching media towards the students’ vocabulary mastery. The data weretaken by giving vocabulary test which consists of word completion and matching. Thetests were divided into two tests: pre-test and post-test for both experimental and controlgroup. The mean score of pre-test in experimental group is 53.73 and the post-test is79.86. The mean score of pre-test in control group is 43.86 and the post test is 58.667. Itis concluded that the mean score of experimental group is higher than control group. Theresult that t-calculated > t-table at the level of significance p = 0.01 (3.095>2.660). Thealternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. It means thatJakarta post headlines and sub headlines can be used as teaching media as alternative toenrich students’ vocabulary mastery at the second year students of Junior High School.key words: Jakarta post headlines and sub headlines, Vocabulary