THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING SHORT STORY AS THE MEDIA TOWARDS THE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT OF X-MIA 3 AT MAN 2 TULUNGAGUNG

ABSTRACT Yanti, Risma. Student registered number. 2813133099. 2017. The Effectiveness of Using Short Story as the Media toward Students’ Vocabulary of X-MIA 3 at MAN 2 Tulungagung. Sarjana Thesis. English Education Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor: Nany Soengkono M, SS, M.Pd. Keywords: Effectiveness, Vocabulary, Short Story. Vocabulary is an important component of language proficiency and it is influence how the learners listen, speak, read and write. Without having an extensive vocabulary the learners will be difficult to understand English. Related to teaching vocabulary, to the students of X-MIA 3 MAN 2 Tulungagung, the students are lack of mastering vocabulary because they had difficulties to memorize vocabularies and understand their meaning. Common errors are found when the students asked to fulfill incomplete sentences and arrange words in sentences. Because of that case, the researcher was interested in using one of good media that can be used in teaching vocabulary, which is short story. In teaching vocabulary by using short story, the students did three main activities. Those are pre-reading activity, while-reading activity and post reading activity. This study attempted to answer the following research question: (1) How is the students’ vocabulary achievement before being taught by using short story? (2) How is the students’ vocabulary achievement after being taught by using short story? (3) Is there any significant difference score of the students’ vocabulary achievement before and after being taught by using short story? In carrying this research, the researcher formulated the objectives of the study as follow: (1) To know the students’ vocabulary achievement before being taught by using short story (2) To know the students’ vocabulary achievement after being taught by using Short Story. (3) To know whether there is any significant difference score of students’ vocabulary achievement before and after being taught by using short story. The research method used in this research is pre experimental design because there is no control group. This research used quantitative approach with one group pre-test and post-test design. It is intended to find out any significant different on the student’s vocabulary achievement before and after being taught using short story. The population of this research was all students of tenth grade at MAN 2 Tulungagung that consists of nine classes. The sample of this research is the students of X-MIA 3 which consist of 38 students that are selected by using purposive sampling. Meanwhile, the research instrument used in this research was test, they are pre-test and post-test. The data collected through pre-test and post-test were analyzed by using Paired Sample T test with SPSS 16.0. The result showed that different of mean score of students’ vocabulary before being taught using short story was 57.50. Meanwhile, the mean score of students’ vocabulary after being taught using short story was 73.03. The result of counting score using T-test showed that significant value (0,000) < significant level (0.05), the result of calculation indicated that Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. The finding showed that short story was effective used in teaching vocabulary for it could increase the students’ vocabulary