The English Vocabulary Mastery of the Fifth Grade Students of SD N 1 Gemulung Pecangaan Jepara in Academic Year 2013/2014 Taught by using TPR-Storytelling

Teaching English in Elementary school is not easy but it is interesting since English is as foreign language beside the characteristic of young learners itself. There are four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in learning language. The four skill are supported by language component they are vocabulary, pronounciation and grammar. The writer choose vocabulary as language component to conduct the research. Vocabulary is one important aspect in learning a foreign language. With a limited vocabulary anyone will also has a limited understanding in term of speaking, reading, listening, and writing. It is true that it might be impossible to learn a language without mastering vocabulary. In this case, most of students have difficulties in mastering English vocabulary. In the teaching and learning process the teacher should choose the appropriate technique in order to creat learning English vocabulary. The study is aimed to find out the significant difference between the English vocabulary mastery of the fifth grade students of SD N 1 GemulungPecangaanJepara in academic year 2013/2014 before and after being taught by using TPR-Storytelling. To be able to find the significant difference between the English vocabulary mastery of the fifth grade students of SD N 1 GemulungPecangaanJepara in academic year 2013/2014 before and after being taught by using TPR-Storytelling, the writer conduct an experimental research which is in the area of quantitatif. The population of this research is the fifth grade students of SD N 1 Gemulung Pecangaan Jepara which are consist of twenty eight students. Since the total population is less that one hundred so all of them takes as the subject of the research. Test is used as the instrument of the reseach. The the test is written test, the form of the test is multiple choise test that consist of twenty item test. Based on the analyzing the data, it was found that the English vocabulary mastery of the fifth grade students of SD N 1 GemulungPecangaanJepara in academic year 2013/2014 after being taught by using TPR-Storytelling was categorized excellent. The mean is 87.46, and the standard deviation is 7.88. Meanwhile the English vocabulary mastery of the fifth grade students of SD N 1 GemulungPecangaanJepara in academic year 2013/2014 before being taught by using TPR-Storytelling was categorized sufficient. The mean is 65.5 and standard deviation is 15.85. Moreover the calculation of t-observation (to) 9.75 was higher than t-table (tt) 2.06 in level of significance 5%. It means there is significance difference between the English vocabulary mastery of the fifth grade students of SD N 1 GemulungPecangaanJepara in academic year 2013/2014 before and after being taught by using TPR-Storytelling Based on the result above, the writer suggests that the English teacher is expected to use TPR-Storytelling as an alternative technique to teach English vocabulary mastery.The other researcher are suggested to conduct a study of this technique to the other English skill or the other subject in different level