An Analysis Of Students’ Difficulties In Vocabulary Mastery At First Year Students Of English Language Education Fkip Universitas Islam Riau

Vocabulary mastery is the most important one to make easy in learning those language skills. The purpose of this research to find out to find out what are the students’ difficulties in vocabulary mastery of first year at English Language Education FKIP Universitas Islam Riau. The researcher used quantitative research. The subject for collecting data were the first semester class A the sample of the research and B to try out the test and was conducted from January - June 2021, there were 33 students 13 males and 20 females. The location of this research is at English Language Education Universitas Islam Riau. The researcher was used vocabulary test in multiple choice forms and researcher used simple purposive sampling. The researcher shares the link via chairman of class and the researcher used SPSS 25 version to analysis the data and the researcher was analysis which one the students’ difficulties in vocabulary mastery by vocabulary test. The result of this research shows that the mean score of students is 69 (Good) and then 3 students got score 86-100 and categorized “excellent”, 16 students score got score 66-85 and categorized “Good”. At categorized “fair” there are 11 students got score 46-65, and 3 students got score 26-45 and categorized “Poor”. As a final point, it can be concluded that most of the students categorized “good” in vocabulary test. In addition, based on the result, the researcher have found that the students’ difficulties in vocabulary mastery in term of preposition, verb, pronoun, adverb and adjective. While, the noun and conjunction is have easy criteria. The difficult question for students is preposition question. The level of preposition question is difficult