The Mastery of English Vocabulary of The Fifth Grade Students of SDN 6 bulungkulon Jekulo Kudus Taught by Using Total Physical Response (TPR) in Academic Year 2011/2012

Elementary school students are expected to master enough vocabulary to support their English skills to the next level. When the students have known enough vocabulary, it will help them to make their learning process go easier with the maximum result. However, the fact shows that many students have difficulties to master their English vocabulary. TPR is one of the teaching methods that can make the students more interested and motivated. The purpose of this research is to find out whether there is a significant difference of the mastery of English vocabulary of the fifth grade students of SDN 6 Bulungkulon Jekulo Kudus in academic year 2011/2012 before and after being taught by using TPR. The subject of the research is the fifth grade students of SDN 6 Bulungkulon Jekulo Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012 with the number of students 42. The design of this research is experimental research by using test instrument (pre test and post test) and giving the treatment only in one group. The result showed that the mastery of English vocabulary of the fifth grade students of SDN 6 Bulungkulon Jekulo Kudus in academic year 2011/2012 before being taught by using TPR is categorized low. The score of mean and standard deviation are 48.07 and 17.79. Meanwhile, the mastery of English vocabulary of the fifth grade students of SDN 6 Bulungkulon Jekulo Kudus in academic year 2011/2012 after being taught by using TPR is categorized good. The score of mean and standard deviation are 71.35 and 19.30. The calculation of t-test gets result 7.71 and in the level of significant 0.05 and the degree of freedom (df) 41 which is gained N1-1, t-table is 2.021. It is concluded that there is a significant difference of the mastery of English vocabulary of the fifth grade students of SDN 6 Bulungkulon Jekulo Kudus in academic year 2011/2012 before and after being taught by using TPR. Considering the process and the results of this research, I suggest that the teacher should use an interesting media or method in teaching English, especially in the English vocabulary mastery. One of them is TPR as an alternative method in teaching English vocabulary