The Vocabulary Mastery Of The Fifth Grade Students Of SDN Pegandan 01 Pati In Academic Year 2012/2013 Taught By Using Story-Based Approach

Teaching English for young learners become popular in Indonesia now days since English subject is given in Elementary school, although it still as a local content subject. Based on the curriculum, students of Elementary school as beginner level are supposed to be able to use the simple spoken language related with the scope of school. Therefore, students have to master the vocabulary well. In fact, the vocabulary mastery of the fifth grade students of SDN Pegandan 01 in academic year 2011/ 2012 is still low and that is proved from the result of the mid-term test score. The mean score of the students is 55 and the minimum standard score is 70. Therefore, Story-Based Approach is an approach that will I use to try to solve that problem. The purpose of this research is to know the significant different of the vocabulary mastery of the fifth grade students in SDN Pegandan 01 Pati in academic year 2011/2012 before and after being taught by using a Story-Based Approach. Design of this research is one group experimental quantitative research. The population of this research is all of the fifth grade students of SDN Pegandan 01 Pati in academic year 2012/2013. There are nineteen students. The instrument of this research is written test of vocabulary. Moreover, the item type of the test is multiple-choice items. Furthermore, the test is conduct two times that is pre-test and post-test. Based on the research finding, it can conclude that there is a significant difference between the vocabulary mastery of the fifth grade students of SDN Pegandan 01 Pati in academic year 2012/2013 before and after taught by using Story-Based Approach. That is based on the result of the t-test calculation show that t-observation is higher than t-table (to = 3.59 > t-t = 2.101). In the level of significant α= .05 and the degree of freedom 18. Moreover, the mean in pretest is 60,05 and the mean in post-test is 74,63. Furthermore, the standard deviation in pretest is 13,82 and the standard deviation in post-test is 12,67. In addition, based on the pretest score, the median is 77,75 and the mode is 56,6. While based on the post-test score, the median is 81,84 and the mode is 68,3. Based on the result of the research, the English teacher in Elementary school is suggested to use Story-Based Approach because Story-Based Approach provides repetition and real context, so that make students easy in learning vocabulary. Moreover, Story-Based Approach is appropriate with the children’ characteristic, that they like story. Furthermore, children will learn best when they are enjoy themselves, and through Story-Based Approach they will enjoy learning English