Improving Students’ Mastery in Vocabulary through Video of First Grade Students at MTs Assyafi’iyah Gondang in the Academic Year of 2015/2016

ABSTRACT Sutanti, Anindia Sari. Student Registered Number : 2813123037, 2016. Improving Students’ Mastery in Vocabulary through Video of First Grade Students at MTs Assyafi’iyah Gondang in the Academic Year of 2015/2016, Sarjana Thesis . English Education Department Faculty Of Tarbiyah And Teacher Training State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung Advisor : Muh. Basuni, M.Pd. Keywords : mastery, vocabulary, video Vocabulary is the central and very important component to learn a foreign language. Therefore, the students should have to obtain vocabulary mastery. One of component that links the listening, speaking, reading is vocabulary. If the students have limited vocabulary, it means that they will find difficulties in understanding English. To prepare students who are having good ability in communicating, the teacher should pay attention much in teaching vocabulary. Improving Students’ Mastery in vocabulary through Video of First Grade Students at MTs Assyafi’iyah Gondang in the Academic Year of 2015/2016 The research problem formulation is how can video improve the students’ vocabulary mastery of first grade students at MTs Assyafi’iyah Gondang in the academic year of 2015/2016? The purpose of the research is to identify how can video improve the students’ vocabulary mastery of first grade students at MTs Assyafi’iyah Gondang in the academic year of 2015/2016. The design used in this research is classroom action research (CAR). The subject of this research is the students of Class VII-B selected as the subject of the study which consisted of 30 students, 16 males and 14 females were considered representative enough for the purpose of this study The results of classroom action research (CAR) is that video can be used to improve the students vocabulary mastery achievement. That improvement could be seen through some points. The students’ improvement can be clearly seen from the mean score of the pre-test, post-test 1 and post-test 2. In the pre-test, the students mean score was 58.53 point, in the post-test 1 the mean value was 68 point, while in the post-test 2 the mean value was 81.33 point. The total mean scores of cycle 2 was also higher than cycle 1. It clearly proved that the ability of the students in vocabulary mastery was improved from cycle to cycle after they had been taught through video. The Video given from the teacher helps the students to improve their vocabulary mastery achievement. By applying video, it help them avoid the same mistakes in the future because the students were interested in it and would remember the content of video. The teacher should also give the direct feedback if there are some students who have mistakes