The Effect of using Word Wall Media and Activities in Teaching Vocabulary to The Seveth Graders of SMPN 1 Kamal

SUMMARY Mayasari, Elita Dwi. 2018. The Effect of Word WallMedia and Activitiesin Teaching Vocabulary for Seveth Graders in SMPN 1 Kamal.English Department. Faculty of Letters. Universitas Negeri Malang. Advisors: (1) Dr. Mirjam Anugerahwati, M.A (2) Prof. Utami Widiati. M.A., Ph.D Key words: vocabulary, word wall, teaching One of the media used in teaching vocabulary is word wall. Teaching vocabulary using word wall will help the students to absorb the vocabulary items in more interesting way. Teaching vocabulary using word wall can help the students to increase their vocabulary achievement. The formulation of the research problem is “Does word wall media effectively increase the students’ vocabulary mastery?” The research design that was used in this study is Pre-Experimental research. The treatment was done in five meetings in which the first and the last meeting were used to have pre-test and post-test. The subjects of this study were the seventh graders of SMP Negeri 1 Kamal, Bangkalan, Madura studying in the 2017/2018 academic year. The researcher took class VIIA as the samples and it consisted of 30 students. To collect the data, the researcher used test as the instrument that is the pre-test and post-test The quantitative data obtained from the pre-test and post-test were analyzed by using t-test. The analysis was done on computer using Microsoft Excel and SPSS. The finding showed that the mean scores of the students’ vocabulary mastery before being taught using word wall is 64.16, while the mean scores of the students’ vocabulary mastery after being taught using word wall is 84.7. It was proved with the t-test analysis that the result of tcount=13.393, whereas the value in the ttable=1.699. Since that tcount is bigger than ttable (tcount> ttable). So there is significant effect of using word wallmedia and activity in teaching vocabulary for the seventh garders of SMPN 1 Kamal.