THE INFLUENCE OF USING DIRECT METHOD TOWARDS STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF SEVENTH GRADE OF MTs AL HIKMAH BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2018/2019

Vocabulary is one of aspects in language skill that should be mastered by the students. Vocabulary mastery is an ability of speaker or writer to use all the words of language that they have learnt in conducting both oral and written communication. The students‟ vocabulary mastery of MTs Al Hikmah Bandar Lampung is still low. It can be seen from the students‟ vocabulary mastery score in preliminary research. There were 66.43% of the students who got the score under 70 as the criteria of minimum mastery. Because of that, the researcher applied Direct Method. Direct Method is one way to help students‟ vocabulary mastery by doing some procedures in the method. The objective of this research was to know whether there is a significant influence of using Direct Method towards Students‟ Vocabulary Mastery at the Seventh Grade of Mts Al Hikmah Bandar Lampung in the Academic Year of 2018/2019. The research methodology was quasi experimental design. In this research, the population was the seventh grade of Mts Al Hikmah, Bandar Lampung. The sample of this research was two classes consisted of 28 students for experimental class and 30 students for control class. In the experimental class, the research used Direct Method. On the other hand, in the control class, the research used Grammar Translation Method. The treatments were held in 3 meetings in which 2 x 40 minutes for each class. In collecting the data, the research used instrument in the form of multiple choice questions which had been tried out before the treatments. The instrument was given in pre-test and post-test. Before giving the treatment, the researcher gave pre-test for both classes. Then, after conducting the treatments, the instrument was given in post-test. After giving pre-test and post-test, the researcher analyzed the data to calculate independent sample t-test. Based on the result of the test in this research is 3.65 and at the score of tcritical with the level of significant α 0.05 is 2.02. Based on the data, it can be concluded that the null hyphothesis (Ho) is rejected and the alternative hyphothesis (Ha) is accepted because the tobserved is higher than tcritical (3.65>2.02). it means that Direct Method has a significant influence towards students‟ vocabulary mastery at the seventh grade of MTs Al Hikmah Bandar Lampung in the academic year of 2018/2019