Improving The Vocabulary Mastery Of The Fifth Grade Students At Mi Muhammadiyah Jati Kulon Kudus In Academic Year 2016/2017 Taught By Using Banana Race Game

Vocabulary is one of important elements in learning a language. Without vocabulary, everybody will get difficulties in learning English and also will have a limited understanding in terms of listening, speaking, reading and writing. So, it is quite true that it might be impossible to learn a language without learning vocabulary. The condition of teaching and learning process in MI Muhammadiyah Jati Kulon Kudus,the teacher does not use any technique to teach English vocabulay. The teacher only gives the meaning of some vocabulary directly while delivering the material. On this condition, the reseacher propose Banana Race Game to teach vocabulary. The objective of this research is to find out whether there is any improvement of the vocabulary mastery and to know the implementation of Banana Race Game in improving vocabulary mastery of fifth grade students at MI Muhammadiyah Jati Kulon Kudus. This research belongs to classroom action research. Banana Race Game is the game that used in this research. This research is conduct at MI Muhammadiyah Jati Kulon Kudus, while the subject is the fifth grade students at MI Muhammadiyah Jati Kulon Kudus that consists of 20 students. This research is done in 2 cycles. The researcher uses two instruments in this research. First is observation sheet that is used to know the teacher’s and student’s activities. Second is achivement test used to know the students’ vocabulary mastery. Based on the finding of this research, the students’ average score is improve from 65.25 in cycle 1 then it is changed into percentage to be 66.25% and 76.25 in cycle2 then it is changed into percentage to be 76.25%. From the data above, the category of the average score of the students’ vocabulary mastery in cycle 1 is good and in the cycle 2 is very good. It can be concludes that Banana Race Game can improve the vocabulary mastery of the fifth grade students at MI Muhammadiayh Jati Kulon Kudus in academic year 2016/2017. From the fact above, it is expected that English teacher should be more active, creative and inovative in teaching learning process. So, the students will be more active in teaching learning process