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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
important one for various reasons. Realizing the importance of English for the
English for the progress of our country, the government suggest to the teaching of
to get knowledge technology and culture covering the skill of listening, speaking,
people need especially for those who want to continue their study at the
university.
Based on the 1994 English curriculum for both of Junior and Senior High
School levels, the students should master four skills of the target language,
namely; listening, speaking, reading, and writting. Besides, there are also three
the four main skills of English language. Nevertheless, each of these components
is not taught in certain topic but all of them are inclusively in those four language
In relation with the above description, the writer interprets that one of the
language elements which is very important for the learners especially for the
beginners is vocabulary such as adjective, noun, and verb as the basic component
thinks that the more vocabularies the learners have the easier for them to develop
skill, or the less vocabularies the learners have the harder for them to develop their
language skills. By learning vocabulary, the learners will experience the parts of
vocabulary such as adjective, noun, and verb as the basic component the writer
with Wachidah (2001) who stated that developing the language competence as a
the learners of the target language since it can support those four language skills
as stated in the curriculum. That’s why the writer is aware of conducting this
achievement on those who join English course and never join English course at
most of students join English course but there are some students who never
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join English course. That is why the writer was interested to know and
compare the vocabulary achievement both kind of those students because the
writer thinks that students who join English course and who never join
between the students who join english course and students who never join
Based on the research question above, the objective of this research were:
students who join English course and who never join English course”.
Tongauna.
2. Practical significance is that the result of their study can give guide line to
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the English teacher and parents of the students in effort to increase the
3. The English teacher can provide the different instructive process for those
students’ vocabulary achievement who join English course and those who do
English course and those who do not join English course at the seven grade
of SMPN 3 Tongauna. The vocabulary that had been investigated are noun, verb,
and adjective, based on the book used at seven grade of SMP Negeri 3 Tongauna.
2. Vocabulary in this study is the words which consist of nouns, verbs, and
adjectives that have been studied by the seven grade of SMP Negeri 3
Tongauna.
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school schedules.
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CHAPTER II
LITERATURE REVIEW
activity that effects the interaction with one’s environment change in undertaking
the knowledge, skill, and attitude value. This statement is close related to Runch (
1984 ) that learning is a process that brings the change in the individual way of
aspect.
Based on the above statements, the writer interpreted that the important
element in learning process is the existing of interaction between the learners and
many dimensional factors, include the teachers, facilities, students, social and
cultural background, the appropriate materials, and the convenient methods. All of
these factors are very essential to give the impacts of successful in learning
The concept of learning may be different from the concept of teaching. But
In learning process, there are some logical considerations which attracts the
1. Learning process is focused on how the teachers support and encourage the
2. People tend to use the term “learning” than “ teaching “ because in the teaching
process the main focus is concentrated on how transfers the knowledge from
Richards and King (1971) argues that three phases in learning process must
be existed, namely; (1) presentation, (2) practice, and (3) production. The most
the objectives and targets of every course material in subject matter. This way is
the one where the teacher starts the lesson and the student are activated to
student can also make themselves a plan concerning to prepare the time for
additional hours to study in order the traditional class pattern, teacher – centred is
changed into the new one, it is student – centred. This step is to generate to
students motivation and interest in order they are enthusiastic to join the class
activity.
students to evaluate how far their material understanding. By doing it, the teacher
production phrase is the last one which is expected the students are highly
competence in language skills means that they can use the target language as a
As has been mentioned above that the main responsibility of teacher is not
to transfer the knowledge to the student but how to give and generate the students
English says “Give him a fish you feed him for a day, teach a man how to fish,
and you feed him for a life time.” Now exists a question; what kind of method
should be used by teachers of English in handling the class to make their students
successful in learning? Here, under the writer tries to present a glance of methods
undertake diligently in order to gain a certain result. This statement concerns with
practice or perseverance.
reacted by students who undertake the learning activities and directly knowledge
authority, capability, skill and attitude that has been reached. Therefore, Winkel
gained.
Based on the statement above, it can be concluded that learning process that
filed in skill, in the norm and attitude aspect. The existence of that change appears
given by the teacher. Therefore, the teacher’s role towards student’s achievement
is very needed. The teachers task is how to indicate or how to initiative their
in two factors e.g. internal and external factor. An internal factor is the factor
separated each other. A student who feels interested to one subject visually
students, both girls and boys who studies on one subject with full of interest
and attention can hopefully get a good mark on the contrary, students who
could not put their attention certainly will get a lower mark.
Everyone has a different talent and it will influence the students test
score on one subject learned. For instance, a student who has talent in
English subject will be easier to increase his knowledge than they who no
which are divided into parts, they are: (1) Internal factor and (2) External
factor.
Internal factor is the factor that come oat from the individual itself
which can influence the learning of the students and it consist of the two
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as follows:
1. Physical Factor
the body (physical handicapped). If the condition of our health is not too
good of course it can influence the activity or the process of learning because
we will be setting tired soon. They are easy to get sleepy, lock of spirit often
to be dizzy, or other physical sickness. The physical condition like this night
make the less of absorptive power toward the material of learning and will
2. Psychological factor
A. Intelligence
child in learning.
problem, which require the comprehension, and use of symbol. The statement
above mean that intelligence is very importance in solving the problem. That
B. Motivation
desires emerges because of needs. Blair, Jones, and Simpson state that
are expended in the direction of goal: and Brown explained that "motivation
learning activity is begin and continued based on the inner drive. Intrinsic
continued based on the drive, but this drive in indefinitely related to the
learning.
The string thing of students, motivation may give some one much
energy to do all learning activities. This the teacher will easy to do the
without together function to generate and control the act of learning. In other
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word, strong motivation function will lead to strong effort itself Kartono in
Munawar (1999:21) state that: "In studying should be have hard motive. It
will enlarge activate and effort to reach high prostration.” On the other hand,
we can say that motivation is energy exchange in selves somebody who paper
activity. Moreover Hilgard and Russel (1984:189) put that “the evidence
seems rather clear too that motivation is not something applied from the
learning situation but is an intrinsic or it. The quotation above may mean that
string thinning students’ motivation will give him all energy to do all
learning activity.
kept i n country with out interest there will not be an inclination to pay
above, it can be understood that interest has greatest influence toward the
the learning activity which enables them to study hard to gain satisfactory
result.
D. Attitude
involved in the performance of a task respect to which the individual has had
A. Family factor
increasing the children at school is needed because the success or the failure
of this, Slameto says that: Siswa yang belajar akan menerima pengaruh dari
keluarga berupa cara orang tua mendidik anak, relasi antara keluarga,
suasana rumah tangga, keadaan ekonomi keluarga dan pendidikan orang tua,
(Slameto, 1988:62).
B. Parents Education
way to educate the children has a great influence to child in learning process.
In term of this Slameto (1995:62) says that: the student who study will
receive influence from their parents such as economic and their parents’
family has enough financial (economic). Both external and internal factor
pixy an importance role to determine the student's ability, ach i evement and
successful in learning -Includes answering the test items of the test score of
male and female. In term of this, Vazey in Munawar (1999:19) stated that
239).Vocabulary is the content and function words of language, which are learned
so thoroughly that they become a part of child’s understanding, speaking and later
1979:642). Penny (1969: 10) in his book “A course in language Teaching” states
language. However a new item of vocabulary may be more than a single word, for
example: post office and mother in law, which is made of two or three words but
in language.
c. The list of words like dictionary but complete with description briefly.
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By looking all the above definition we can see that vocabulary is the
words, which is having meaning and function of language. The meaning is not
In teaching learning process the teacher usually don’t need to spend the
same amount of time and care in presenting all new vocabulary will be more
important to student than other. Basically there are two types of vocabulary,
namely active vocabulary and passive vocabulary. The active vocabulary consists
of the words use in conversation and writing. The passive vocabulary consists of
the words that are not usually used, but which are recognized understood when
read. The passive vocabulary is usually more than the active vocabulary.
Shaw and De vet (1990: 19) state that there are two types of Vocabulary,
they are:
a. Active vocabulary. Words which students will need to understand and also
time giving example and asking questions, so that students can really see haw
when reading a text), but which they will not need to use themselves. To save
as part of text or dialogue, we often leave the student to guess the word from
the context.
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and far more words than they can produce, so we should not try treat all new
order to help them whether they have enough vocabulary to do particular task.
Various test technique are uses to know the learners ability in mastering
2. Multiple choice, in this test, students are required to choose one or more of
3. Matching, this test tends to be alike to the multiple choice because students are
also invited to choose one or more words in one of a pair columns which are
4. Checking, in this test, students are provided with some words and are asked to
check the words they have been recognized and then make a definition of the
words.
There is still may be other test technique which have or not been
mentioned in this study but have been found during of experience in teaching and
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learning L2. However, those four test techniques are expected to have had a great
students’ knowledge of the meaning of certain words and words group, such a test
CHAPTER III
writer elaborated the factual and natural data gotten in the field of the study.
The data that described in this study is the student's vocabulary achievement
at the entire seven grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Tongauna in academic year
2012/2013.
3.2 Population
The population of this study was all of the seven grade students of
3.3 Sample
sample consisted of two groups, namely the group of the students who join
English course and the group who do not join English course. For knowing
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the students who join and who do not join English course, the writer came to
the target school and asked the students to get factual data whether they join
English course or not. After getting the data, the writer then determined 22
students who join English course and 18 students who do not join English
sentences, and matching item tests. The objective test consists of 45 items; 11
items of nouns, 15 items of adjective, and 19 items of verbs. These items (words)
were selected from the relevant book that used by the English for the seven grade
of SMPN 3 Tongauna.
Furthermore, the writer decides marking schema of this research was 1 for
each the right answer and 0 for the wrong answer. The formula was as follows:
8 – 10 = Very good
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7 – 7.9 = Good
6 – 6.9 = Enough
0 – 5.9 = Low
(Sudijono, 1987:17)
In collecting the data, the writer, firstly had a permission from the headmaster of
1. Classifying the students who join English course and those who do
3. Examining the result of the test by giving the score of each respondent
inferential statistics. Descriptive analysis was used to describe the findings of the
study, the writer computed result of the results of the test that was obtained by the
students as follows:
2. Classifying the score of the students’ answer into the following measurement:
8 – 10 = Very good
7 – 7.9 = Good
6 – 6.9 = Enough
0 – 5.9 = Low
(Sudijono, 1987:17)
F = frequency
4. Finding out the mean score of the students answers by using formula:
∑X
X= N
Notation:
5. Finding out the standard deviation of the students join English course
N (∑ X2 ) − (∑ X)2
SD =
N (N−1)
Where:
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Then, the inferential analysis was used to examine the hypothesis of the
study. In testing the hypothesis of the study, the writer used T-test with the
formula as follows:
T-Test = X1 – X2
(n-1)S12 + (n-1)S22 1 1
n1 + n2 – 2 n1 n2
Where:
1. If t test > t table, it means that H0 is rejected. In other word, it means that
who join English course and those who do not at the seven grade of
SMPN 3 Tongauna.
English course and those who do not at the seven grade of SMPN 3
Tongauna.