The English Vocabulary Mastery of the Fifth Grade Students of MI Tarbiyatul Islamiyah Tanjunganom Gabus Pati in the Academic Year 2011/2012 Taught by Using Nursery Rhyme

Elementary school students are expected to master enough vocabulary to support their English skill to the next level. They cannot express their idea or opinions in English without knowing English vocabulary. However, the fact shows that the students find some difficulties and also need much time to master English vocabulary. Someone learns English as a foreign language that often face interference. The aims of the language teaching are very often defined with reference to the four language skills. They are listening, speaking, reading and writing. Teaching media have been used in this research to increase students’ in mastery of the English vocabulary is nursery rhyme. Nursery Rhyme is a kind of media as same as poem of that can make the students more interested through singing activity together. This research has a purpose to find out the answer from the statement of the problem. The purpose of this research is to find out whether there is a significant difference of the English vocabulary mastery to the fifth grade students of MI Tarbiyatul Islamiyah Tanjunganom, Gabus, Pati in the academic year 2011/2012 before and after being taught by using nursery rhyme. This is quantitative research, which relies on quantitative data based on computation and measurement, operational variables and statistics. The method of the research is experiment. This design of the study is the quasi-experimental method with pre-test and posttest though multiple choices test. There is a try out before the test, and then it is continued by validity and reliability test. The subject of the research is the fifth grade students of MI Tarbiyatul Islamiyah Tanjunganom, Gabus, Pati which consist the population of 29 students. The instrument of the research was written tests given and giving treatment on seven groups in a class. The result of this research shows that (i) the English vocabulary mastery of the fifth grade students of MI Tarbiyatul Islamiyah Tanjunganom Gabus Pati in the academic year 2011/2012 before being taught by using nursery rhyme is sufficient. The score of mean and deviation standard are 62.9 and 11.6 Meanwhile, the English vocabulary mastery of the fifth grade students of MI Tarbiyatul Islamiyah Tanjunganom Gabus Pati in the academic year 2011/2012 after being taught by using nursery rhyme media is categorized good. The score of mean and standard deviation are 77.9 and 8.15. The calculation of t-test gets result 2.05 with the level of significant 0.05 and degree of freedom (df) 28 which is gained N1 – 1, t-table is 6.4. It is concluded that there is significant difference in the English vocabulary mastery to the fifth grade students of MI Tarbiyatul Islamiyah Tanjunganom, Gabus, Pati in the academic year 2011/2012 before and after being taught by using nursery rhyme. Considering the process and results of this research, the writer suggest that the English teacher of elementary school should be more creative and innovative in selecting the suitable methods and media in teaching learning process. Nursery rhyme can be used as alternative media to teach English vocabulary. In fact, nursery rhyme can improve the English vocabulary mastery and solve students’ bored in the classroom. Besides, the students should be more active during teaching learning process