The Mastery of English Vocabulary of the Third Grade Students of SD N Dukutalit 01 Juwana in the Academic Year 2012/2013 Taught by Using Total Physical Response (TPR)

One of the aims of teaching English in Elementary School is to enhance students to be able to understand English words which they might find in their environment. In fact, students often find problems in learning the words. So it needs more teachers’ attention to make the transfer of the vocabulary process easier to grasp and more fun to learn. Meanwhile, the students of SD N Dukutalit 01 Juwana also have some problems in learning vocabulary. From the reasons above, the writer is intereseted to carry on a research entitled “The Mastery of English Vocabulary of the Third Grade Students of SD N Dukutalit 01 Juwana in the Academic Year 2012/2013 Taught by Using Total Physical Response (TPR)” The purposes of the research are: (i) to find out the extent of the English vocabulary mastery of the third grade students of SD N Dukutalit 01 Juwana in the academic year of 2012/2013 before being taught by using Total Physical Response (TPR) (ii) to find out the extent of the English vocabulary mastery of the third grade students of SD N Dukutalit 01 Juwana in the academic year of 2012/2013 after being taught by using Total Physical Response (TPR) (iii) to find out whether or not there is a significant difference of the English vocabulary mastery of the third grade students of SD N Dukutalit 01 Juwana in the academic year of 2012/2013 before and after being taught by using Total Physical Response (TPR) This research is experiement research with one group pretest-posttest. The sample of this research is all the third grade students of SD N Dukutalit 01 Juwana in the academic year 2012/2013 which consists of 32 students. Before applying Total Phisical Response to the third grade students of SD N Dukutalit 01 Juwana, the writer gave try out to the third grade students of SD N Bendar to know the realiability of the test. The result of try out shows that the test is high reliable (0.80) The result of this research shows that (i) the vocabulary mastery of the third grade students of SD N Dukutalit 01 Juwana in the academic year 2012/2013 before being taught by using Total Physical Response (TPR) is categorized as sufficient. (Mean = 68.75, Standard Deviation =13.5) (ii) the vocabulary mastery of the third grade students of SD N Dukutalit 01 Juwana in the academic year 2012/2013 after being taught by using Total Physical Response (TPR) is categorized as good. (Mean = 89.91, Standard Deviation =8.75) (iii) there is a significant difference between the vocabulary mastery of the third grade students of SD N Dukutalit 01 Juwana in the academic year 2012/2013 before and after being taught by using Total Physical Response (TPR). It can be seen on t-observation is higher than t-table (to = 11.45 > tt = 2.04). Considering the process and the results of this research, the writer suggests that (i) the English Teacher should use Total Physical Response (TPR) in teaching English vocabulary is recommended for English teachers, especially for the elementary school teacher to attract the students’ interest and motivation in learning English (ii) the students should develop their vocabulary to master the four language skills. The students can use Total Physical Response (TPR) to improve the vocabulary mastery (iii) to get a wider generalization of the result of this study, such activity should be conducted in other classes of other school, and the writer hopes that there will be many researchers explore about how to apply Total Physical Response more effectively in the future