The effect of using word wall strategy on students’ vocabulary mastery at Grade VII MTs Negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan

This research focused about the effect of using Word WallStrategy on Students’ Vocabulary Mastery at Grade VII MTs Negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan. The problems of this research were students are less in vocabulary, students had lack motivation in learning vocabulary, students are difficult in remembering new vocabulary, also the English teacher needs some technique in teaching vocabulary mastery. The purpose of this research was to find out the effect of using Word Wall Strategy on Students’ Vocabulary Mastery at Grade VII MTs Negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan. This research employed experimental research. The population of this research was VII classes of MTs Negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan. The total of population were fifth classes. Then, the sample of the research was 2classes, experimental class (VII-1) and control class (VII-2). It was taken randomly after conducting normality and homogeneity test. To collect the data, researcher used test for measuring students’ vocabulary mastery. To analysis the data, the researcher used T-test. Based on the result of the research, researcher showed the description of the data was found that mean score of pre-test in experimental class was higher than control class (58.96>54.62) in enough categorized. Then, after using Word Wall Strategythe result of mean score post-test experimental class was higher than control class (72.18>65.32), and the score of tcount was bigger than ttable (14.2>2.617). It means that hyphothesis alternative (Ha) was accepted. It was concluded that there was significant effect of using Word Wall Strategy on Students’ Vocabulary Mastery at Grade VII MTs Negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan