Vocabulary Achievement Research Articles

The Development of Learning Achievement in Chinese Vocabulary Using Chinese Song for Grade Three Thai Students

Background and Aim: The thesis objectives were to improve the Chinese learning achievement of Grade Three Thai students and investigate their attitudes toward learning. Materials and Methods: The researcher administered a pretest and posttest consisting of 30 multiple-choice questions to compare the students’ learning achievement in Chinese vocabulary before and after using Chinese songs. Four 100-minute different topics lesson plans were utilized and taught for one month with 8 sessions. Additionally, an attitude questionnaire was conducted to measure students' attitudes toward using Chinese songs. Quantitative statistical analysis and paired-sample t-tests were used to analyze the data. Results: The findings revealed that all student participants' posttest mean scores (14.20) were significantly higher compared to their pretest mean scores (9.25) with a mean difference of 4.95. The significance value (p) was also revealed as.05 (p≤.05), indicating a statistically significant rise in the posttest scores of the research participants over the pretest scores, indicating a notable improvement in their learning achievement in Chinese vocabulary. Conclusion: The vast majority of participants displayed a highly positive attitude towards using Chinese songs in their Chinese classes.

The Integration of Islamic and Cultural Values in English Teaching

Teaching English is closely related to learning Western culture; however, it is only sometimes about using the same material. As the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, Indonesia must play a role in integrating Islamic values into learning, mainly English as a foreign language. This study aimed to reveal the integration of Islamic and cultural values in English teaching to Islamic university students. This descriptive qualitative used semi-structured interviews and observation to gather the data. There were 42 students, and one lecturer was chosen using purposive sampling as the participants. The findings showed that integrating Islamic and cultural values helps students understand English more easily. Furthermore, it also supports students with an Islamic background. In addition, the observation result proves that students speaking, listening, translation, reading, and vocabulary achievement is outstanding during the observation. This current research strongly contributes to the literature on research about integrating Islamic values into language teaching. However, the cultural values that showed up are Islamic cultural values. Further research focusing on Local cultural integration in teaching English may be enlightening.

Teacher Vocabulary Use and Student Language and Literacy Achievement.

We sought to examine second grade teachers' word use throughout the school day to identify the amount and type of teacher vocabulary use across content areas as well as to examine relationships between this teacher talk and student language and literacy achievement. Second grade teachers (n = 64) and a random sample of half of their students (n = 619) participated. Teachers recorded instruction during the school day throughout the year, and students were assessed on vocabulary, grammar, and reading measures in the fall and spring. Findings reveal second grade students hear thousands of words spoken by the teacher each hour of the school day, including more than a thousand different words per hour on average. The large majority of words were the most common words in the English language. On average, there were few academic or curriculum vocabulary words used, but this varied widely between teachers. The proportion of academic words used by teachers during the school day significantly predicted students' end-of-year vocabulary. Teachers who used more academic words had students with higher vocabulary achievement at the end of the school year. There were no other significant relationships between teachers' language and student achievement. This correlational evidence adds to the existing knowledge of the importance of academic language to student school outcomes and provides implications for further research in the area of academic language at the early elementary level.

The Effect of Using Intensive Reading Strategy on Students’ Vocabulary Achievement at The First Year Student

This research aimed to determine whether intensive reading strategy is effective to increase students’ English vocabulary. This research used quantitative method as its design. The population in this research consists of 40 students from SMAS EKLESIA. The sample of this research was 20 students in experimental group and 20 students in control group. To collect the data from both classes, this research used pre-test and post-test. The data from both classes analyzed by using SPSS program to calculate and determine the validity of the data. Based on the data analysis, the result of T-test revealed that the post-test score of the experimental group was higher than control group. Additionally, the result of hypothesis analysis showed that t-test is higher than t-table (2.831 > 2.021). It indicated that H0 (Null Hypothesis) was rejected and Ha (Alternative Hypothesis) was accepted. Based on the result of this research, it showed that there was significant improvement on students’ vocabulary achievement in using intensive reading as a strategy in teaching.

The Implementing of Using Wordwall as a Media to Improve The Students’ Vocabulary Achievement in New Normal Era

The objectives of this research were to improve vocabulary achievement by using Wordwall web-based application at the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 KRIAN. Classroom action research was used as the research approach. This study's sample consisted of one class of 28 eleventh grade students. The data were gathered by using observation, tests and questionnaire and were analysed by descriptive statistic for vocabulary test scores and descriptive qualitative for the observation results and questionnaire. In accordance with the findings, only 21% of students passed the KKM during pre-cycle. Students' results improved in post-test I, with 71% passed the KKM. Students' scores improved in the post-test II, with 86% of students who completed the KKM. As many as 93% students gave positive opinion that said was fun and easier did exercieses in Wordwall. In conclusion, used Wordwall in learning can improve student’s vocabulary achievment.

Improving Students’ Vocabulary Achievement Through What Comes Next Technique

Vocabulary is one of the important aspects to master a language. However, in SMA Tahfizul Qur’an Labbaik, vocabulary becomes an issue because most of the students are lack of vocabulary. Most of the students seem confused every time they want to speak in English directly in the classroom because they do not know the vocabulary. Therefore, as one of the English teachers on that school, the writer really wanted to solve this issue. In order to solve the problem, the writer chose What Comes Next technique (WCNT) to teach vocabulary. This study was set out in order to know how the implementation of What Comes Next technique improve students’ vocabulary to the twelfth-grade male students of SMA Tahfizul Qur’an Labbaik Pontianak in the academic year 2020/2021. This study was conducted in Classroom Action Research (CAR) in three cycles. The research subjects in this study were twenty twelfth grade male students. In collecting the data, the writer used field note, observation checklist, and students’ vocabulary test. The findings showed that using What Comes Next technique helped the students improve their vocabulary. Furthermore, using the What Comes Next technique also boosted the students' motivation. Students' enthusiasm and activity rates were also improved as a result of the technique. All of these things can be seen after each cycle. In summary, the writer absolutely recommends other English teachers to apply What Comes Next technique as one of various techniques in their teaching process, especially in teaching vocabulary and action verbs.Keywords: What Comes Next; teaching technique; vocabulary; action verbs; classroom action research

The Effect of Make a Match Technique Toward Students’ Vocabulary

This research intends to find out whether the application of Make A Match technique can enhance students’ vocabulary achievement at SMA Negeri 4 Gorontalo. It was conducted to first grade particularly class X IPA 1 as the sample of this research. The researcher used pre-test post-test design in order to find out the significant difference of students’ vocabulary achievement before and after the application of Make a Match technique. The quantitative method is applied for this research due to this type of research is explaining a phenomenon by collecting numerical data that are analyzed statistically. As the result, after application of Make a Match technique it can be seen that the students’ vocabulary increased. It showed based the result of mean score in pre-test is 16,25 and in post-test increased to 19,3. In addition, the application of this technique made the students actively participate and focus on the vocabulary learning process, interested to follow the learning process due to the learning media and the role that they play during the section. Finally, the students can build communication and corporate with other students.

Improving Students’ Vocabulary Achievement through Make a Match Method

Developing students’ vocabulary achievement using Make a Match Method in recount text is the main purpose of this study. A quantitative research methodology was implemented with quasi-experimental design. The sample of the study were eight grade students of a public junior high school in Puding Besar, Bangka Belitung. They were taken from two classes which consisted of 44 students. This study was conducted by using purposive sampling technique with test as the instrument. The seekings indicated that the average score of experimental and control group post-test differed 7,87 points. Moreover, the calculation of the independent sample test of experimental and control group revealed that the t-obtained in equal variences assumed was 4.814 and the significant (2-tailed) was.000. it can be inferred that there was a significant difference amongst those two samples as the result of the t-obtained was higher than t-table (4.814˃2.02) and the significant (2-tailed) was more modest than calculation with level significant (.000˂0.05). In other words, Make a Match Method enhanced the students’ vocabulary achievement. Ability to develop the English teaching and learning activity was the expected contribution for this study.

Using Word Square Game to Improve Students’ Vocabulary Achievement

The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of using the Word Square approach on students' vocabulary achievement. Students in the eighth grade from a public junior high school in Mendo Barat, Bangka Belitung, were chosen as the sample for an experimental type of research and separated into two groups using a quasi-experimental design: the experimental group and the control group. The test was the instrument employed in this study, and the t-test analysis was performed to assess the test data. The test result was analyzed statistically using the Paired Sample T-Test and the Independent Sample T-Test. It revealed that the experimental and control groups' respective mean pre- and post-test differences were 34.268 and 33.334. Additionally, the t-obtained post-test value of 1.549 was greater than the essential t-table value of 2.01. The findings suggested that the null hypothesis was disproved and the alternate hypothesis was found. According to the findings, the Word Square was one of the most successful strategies for increasing students' passion for studying English.

Using Visual Dictionary in Improving Students’ Vocabulary Achievement

This study was focused on finding out whether using visual dictionary can improve students’ vocabulary achievement or not. The sample of this study was students of a public junior high school in Belinyu, Bangka Belitung province. Based on the result analysis (Paired Sample T-Test), it shows that the mean difference of pre-test and post-test in experimental group was 23.88, while the mean difference of pre-test and post-test in control group was 20.00. In addition, the result of difference analysis in post-test of experimental and control group showed that the value of t obtained was 3.712 which exceed the critical value of t-table 2.00 (at the significant level p< 0.05 in two tailed testing with degree of freedom 61. It means that the null hypothesis was rejected and the research hypothesis was accepted. The result of this study revealed that the post-test scores were better than the pre-test scores of experimental group. It could be seen by comparing their means. The mean of the pre-test scores was (59.00) while the mean of the post-test scores was (82.88). In line with the result, the writer suggests that the Visual Dictionary was one of the effective methods to improve students’ enthusiasm in learning English.

Improving the Students’ Motivation in Learning Vocabulary Using Song Lyrics

This study aims to increase the students' motivation in learning vocabulary using song lyrics in the seventh grade of SMP Citra Bangsa. This classroom action research uses tests, observations, questionnaires, and documentation to determine the improvement that occurs in each cycle. Tests given to Pre-Test, Post-Test cycle 1, and Post-Test cycle 2 showed that the average score of each vocabulary test in the class increased significantly. In the Pre-Test, the mean score was 41.25. Then in the Post-Test cycle 1 the average score raised to 56. In the Post-Test cycle 2, the average score reached 63.5. The improvements proved that song lyrics is worth implementing in teaching vocabulary. It is supported by the results of observations which showed an increase in terms of students' motivation in learning vocabulary. The results of the questionnaire also showed an increase in the number of positive questions. While the number of negative questions decreased. Thus, it can be concluded that there is a significant increase in motivation and vocabulary achievement of seventh grade students of SMP Citra Bangsa after they are taught to use song lyrics.

Improving The Students’ Vocabulary Achievement by Using Guessing Games Technique

Learning vocabulary of foreign languages is very important. To develop the student's language skills in reading, listening, speaking and writing, the learners must master vocabulary. The mastery of vocabulary is needed by each language skill. This study is aimed at improving students' vocabulary achievement through guessing word games. The research of this study was conducted using classroom action research. The subject of this study was the eight grade students' of MTs Tarbiyah Islamiyah Hamparan Perak consisting of 33 students. To collect the data, the instruments used were quantitative data (vocabulary test) and qualitative data (diary notes, interviews, photographs, and observation sheets). In analyzing the data, the mean of the students' score for the pretest was (52.42), for test I was (58.18), and the mean of the students' score for the test II was (72.12). Based on diary notes, interviews, photos and observation sheets, it showed that the expression and excitement of the students were also improved. It was concluded that teaching vocabulary through guessing word games could improve students' vocabulary achievement

The Effectiveness of U-Dictionary as Learning Media to Improve Students’ Vocabulary Achievement at Senior High School

Vocabulary is very important in learning English. Students learning grammar without vocabulary will have a hard time understanding what they are trying to say. Meanwhile when studying English as a second language, people must have a sufficient vocabulary to express themselves and learn a wide variety of words to avoid being detected when they read, write, listen, or speak in English. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness U-Dictionary as media to students’ vocabulary achievement at senior high school at tenth grade. In this study, the design used quantitative pre-experimental. Population In this study that was students at tenth grade in senior high school, divided among all fifteen classes using the technique of random sampling. Instrument in this study used test in objective form. The result could be concluded was proved that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) accepted, meanwhile the null hypothesis rejected (H0) rejected. After using the t-test formula after the test, where the t-test value (3053) was greater than the table value t (1.994) at the 0.05 or 5% significance level in the two-tailed test with df 70. The conclusion showed the U-Dictionary can effective to student’s vocabulary achievement at senior high school.

Elements of digital media in vocabulary remote-learning achievement

<span lang="EN-US">The urge of finding the most suitable method of remote teaching in a pandemic situation has become the center of recent studies. Equipped with instructional scaffolding, the absence of a teacher as a mentor in an asynchronous online class could be replaced by more interesting media for students’ self-study. This study was to look at games, songs, and a movie as media to enhance students’ achievement in English vocabulary. Further, elements in each media were observed along with students’ perceptions to explain the affected area in detail. This descriptive quantitative study used paired samples t-test toward students’ post-test scores of a control group (n=100) and an experimental group (n=100) in vocabulary. Students’ perception of taking media as learning tools in experimental class was measured in a questionnaire to explain the results. Results showed that the significantly experimental group outperformed in the final score. Trend on students’ perception in an experimental group toward these teaching media involved shared and specific features in media design, psychological and pedagogic elements. Further, it turned out that some primary and subsidiary features in games exceeded two other media (songs and movies) in vice versa generating some recommendations for future improvement.</span>

Improving Junior High School students' vocabulary achievement by using WhatsApp

Mobile messaging applications are increasingly widespread among the new generation of students in Indonesia. They use michat, line, WhatsApp and the other messaging applications. This study aimed to improve students' vocabulary achievement by using WhatsApp of VII C students of SMPS Panca Setya Sintang in the academic year 2022/2023. In one cycle, the writer used classroom action research on 19 male and 11 female students. The writer sent vocabulary instructions electronically for two meetings. The multiple-choice test was conducted after each meeting. The results showed that 63,33 % of the students could improve their achievement in the second meeting. It means that the use of WhatsApp in teaching vocabulary can improve students' achievement. Referring to the writer's experience in conducting action research, the writer offers a suggestion. It is suggested that English teachers can use WhatsApp as an alternative application to improve students' vocabulary achievement.

THE USE OF CROSSWORD PUZZLE ON THE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN LEARNING VOCABULARY

Vocabulary have a big contribution to support the successful students’ of learning English, because without grammar is not big problem in communication, but without vocabulary is large problem in communication with students. It means that vocabulary is very important thing in learning English. This research was conducted the use of crossword puzzle on the students’ achievement in learning vocabulary. The minimum completeness criteria of english lesson SMA Negeri 1 Badar =60. Based on the research mean score of students test on pre test =44,57. The mean score on posttest improved become = 78,04 and it reached the minimum completeness criteria score. There were 33,47 point the difference between pre test to the post test score. The calculation of data by using t test and found the t-observation=3,285 then compared it with ttable=2,074 of level alpha = 5%. It meant that tobservation was higher that t-table =3,285>2,074. So, the researcher concluded that there were achievement on student use of crossword puzzle on the Students’ in learning vocabulary on the X students’ of SMA Negeri 1 Badar.

Applying Quizziz Application to Improve Students’ Medical Vocabulary Achievement

Applying Quizziz Application to Improve Students’ Medical Vocabulary Achievement

The Improving of the Student’s Vocabulary Achievement through Crossword Game in the New Normal Era

This research attempted to verify improved vocabulary achievement using the Crossword Game for the eleventh-grade students of SMAN 1 Krian. The method used was classroom action research. The reason why this research was done is because of the pre–cycle outcome. Only five students passed the criteria of minimum score (KKM). So, the researcher wanted to give fun vocabulary learning through Crossword Games. This research was done in 3 cycles. And the subject was one class of eleventh-grade students, which was a class that consisted of 28 students. The instruments were observation, tests, and questionnaires. According to the data analysis, the second cycle's scores are higher than the first. From 17% in pre–test to 75% in post–test 1, it meant that there was an improvement about 58%. Post-test 2, the students passed 85%. Observation showed that students became more engaged when crossword games were used, and their activities dominated the learning process. As much as 92% of students gave a positive opinion about crossword games that said crossword was fun, engaging, and easy for students to study vocabulary. Therefore, teaching the English language using crossword puzzle games could improve the students' vocabulary achievement.

The Learning outcome of using Augmented Reality Instruction to Enhance Students’ English Vocabulary Learning in the EFL Elementary School

As for the rapid advance in technology, language instructors must search for a new methodology to educate students in technological instruction. This study aimed to explore the learning achievement with AR technology. This study examined the learning outcomes of English vocabulary learning in an AR instruction classroom with technological devices. 51 fourth -grader students participated in the instruction in Taichung city in Taiwan. The experimental method was employed to analyze learning data, including AR instruction(ARI) pre- and post-test, multimedia ppt instruction(MPI) pre- and post- test, and significant t -test. The total of 25 students from the experimental group experienced the ARI method, while 26 other students from the controlled group experienced the MPI method. The result revealed that AR instruction was a significant difference level(p<.001). Comparing ARI and MPI group, the mean score post-test of the AR instruction group(M=92.59) was better than the multimedia ppt group(M=84.86). As for learning improvement, the improvement percentage of AR instruction(I=23.1) was higher than multimedia ppt instruction(I=14.24). Therefore, the results from the data analysis revealed that AR instruction facilitated EFL students’ learning and significantly improved the students’ English vocabulary achievement.

Improving Students' Vocabulary Mastery by Using Upin and Ipin Cartoon Movie at Seventh Grade Students of SMP Angkasa Mandai

Abstract Cartoon movie are designed not only to entertain children, but cartoons can be also used to teach and educate the children. The objectives of the study that are to find out whether “Upin and Ipin” cartoon movie can improve the students’ vocabulary and to know whether there is an increase between pre test and post test about the types of vocabulary of "Upin and Ipin" cartoon movie. The method of the research used pre-experimental method with one group pre-test and post-test design. The pre-test administered in order to know students’ vocabulary achievement after. Conducted treatment by using upin and ipin cartoon movie episode 16 Spiritual Night. The subject of the study was seventh grade students of SMP Angkasa Mandai. There were 30 students. Based on finding and discussion, it can be seen that this research shows us that the using Upin and Ipin cartoon movie episode 16 Spritual Night can help students to improve understanding on vocabulary mastery about kinds of vocabulary. After two test was done, there is significant improvement of vocabulary by using Upin and Ipin cartoon movie episode 16 Spritual Night. Pre test mean score (49.67 %) and the post test mean score (88%). The role of media is very important to increasing achievement vocabulary mastery. Therefore, to help the students to remember vocabulary and practice in learning language. It is one of solution to be used as appropriate method in teaching learning process