IMPROVING STUDENTS’
VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT
IN READING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT THROUGH ANAGRAM
TECHNIQUE
A THESIS
Submitted to the English Department Faculty of Language and Arts UNIMED in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for
the Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan
BY:
TIUR ULI OCTAVIA SITOHANG
Reg. Number : 071222210084
ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS
ABSTRACT
Sitohang, T. U. O. Registration Number: 071222210084. Improving Students’ Vocabulary Achievement in Reading Descriptive Text Through Anagram Technique.A Thesis. Faculty of Languages and Arts. State university of Medan. 2014.
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LIST OF FIGURES
FIGURE Page
3.1 Action Research Model based on Kemmis and Mc. Taggart
1 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
A. The Background of The Study
The Curriculum Department of National education (Kurikulum Tingkat
Satuan Pendidikan), students implemented and focused on the achievement of the four skills in order to enable to communicate well in English. To achieve this aims, students should master a number of vocabularies. By mastering a number of
vocabularies they will be able to conceive what they hear and read, and better they will be able to say what they want to speak or write.
Learning vocabulary is one of the first steps of learning a foreign language, yet one never reaches the last step of the vocabulary acquisition. Whether in one’s native language or as a second language, the acquisition of new
vocabulary is a continuous process. Vocabulary is very useful for everyone who is studies a foreign language, and is a very essential tool to comprehend the
language well, speak better or compose a good writing.
Based on the writer’s experience during the Field Teaching Experience
(Program Pengalaman Lapangan : PPL) at SMK Negeri 1 Binjai to grade XI
students of Senior High School in 2011, most of the students had many problems in mastering English words and this situation made them lazy to study English.
Students usually had many problems in mastering English words. They had limited vocabulary to comprehend the meaning of a text; they did not know the context of word used in the text, they could not recognize the meanings of the
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compose their writing task successfully and they got difficulties to state some sentences in English. So, it could be concluded that vocabulary was seen as the
problems difficulty for students.
Based observation that was done by the research in grade XI at SMK
Negeri 1 Binjai from 40 students it was found that they were only 8 could pass the passing grade (KKM) and students still could not pass the passing grade which made by the teacher, the score of the passing grade was 70, moreover, it was
happened because the approach that was used by the teacher was not suitable. The teacher just applied lecturing method. The teacher gave some explanation about
the theory and after that asked the students to read the text and answered the question on the text book.
Table 1.1 Students who could not pass the KKM No Students’ initial
vocabulary. They feel bored with the way of teaching in which they are asked to find out the meaning of difficulty words in dictionary and then they try to memorize the words. It seems that they need something different in studying the
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teachers’ duty to find out the way to provide the students different style of
teaching vocabulary. The use of different technique of teaching considered as one
of the solution.
To make the students to be inspired in studying English especially
vocabularies, the teacher must involve students and control the class. Based on the above problem, the teacher should find the best or the effective technique to teach English vocabulary. It is also used to stimulate the students’ motivation and students’ interest to the lesson.
For this purpose teaching vocabulary by using Anagram technique can
motivate students and make them interested in learning vocabulary English for junior high school. The students know about the new words by using Anagram. The topic must be selected according to the knowledge of the students. Since the
students may not use a lot of logical analysis it is important for teacher ought to emphasize the use of memory.
Anagram technique is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; for example orchestra can be rearranged into carthorse.
Someone who creates anagram is called an anagrammatist. The original word or phrase is known as the subject of an anagram. An anagram is the rearrangement of
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relate in some way to the original subject. They can be apposite, funny, rude, satirical or flattering.
Anagrams are in themselves a recreational activity, but they also make up part of many other games, puzzles and game shows. The Jumble is a puzzle found
in many newspapers in the United States requiring the unscrambling of letters to find the solution. Cryptic crossword puzzles frequently use anagrammatic clues, usually indicating that they are anagrams by the inclusion of a descriptive term like “confused” or “disarray”.
B.The Problem of the Study
Based on the background of the study, the research problem is formulated as the following: Is the students’ of junior high school vocabulary achievement
improved through Anagram technique?
C. The Objective of the Study
The objective of the study is to investigate improvement of the students’
vocabulary achievement if they are taught by applying anagram technique.
D. The Scope of the Study
There are so many games that can be used to improve teaching-learning process of English, including scrabble, scramble, word wall, and puzzle. This study is focused on the application of anagram technique in teaching vocabulary
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E. The Significance of the Study
Finding of this study are expected to be relevant and useful practically and
theoretically. Theoretically, the findings added new horizon to the theories of English learning.
Practically, the findings will be useful for:
1. English teachers to improve the students’ achievement in vocabulary through anagram technique.
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LIST OF TABLES
TABLE Page
1.1 Students Who Could Not Pass the KKM ... 2 3.2 Penilaian Acuan Patokan (PAP) to ascertain the extent of
Students’ Vocabulary Achievement ... 32 4.1 Students’ Score in Orientation Test and Cycles I and II ... 33 4.2 The Comparison of Students’ Score in Three
Vocabulary Test ... 35 4.3 The Percentage of Students who Got the Score 70 or
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LIST OF APPENDICES
APPENDIX Page
A. Lesson Plan ... 50
B. Students’ Score in Orientation Test, Cycles I and II ... .. 68
C. The Calculation of Students’ Mean Score ... 70
D. The Percentage of Students’ Vocabulary Achievement ... 72
E. Observation Sheet ... 74
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CHAPTER V
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
A. Conclusions
After the data analysis and based on the research findings, it was found
out that in teaching vocabulary, the using of Anagram technique is a good choice as a technique. After analyzing the data, it was found out that the students’
vocabulary scores improved from Orientation test to Test I and test II. It means that the use of anagram technique in teaching vocabulary gave an improvement
for the students’ vocabulary achievement.There is an improvement in students’
mean scores. The mean of students’ score in Orientation test was 38,70. The mean
of students’ score in test I was 66,29 and the mean of students’ score in test II was
82,74. The analysis of quantitative data showed that the scores improved from the first test to the last test.Through the observation sheets and questionnaire, the improvement in learning vocabulary by anagram technique was also proved.
Therefore, the use of anagram technique could significantly improve the students’
vocabulary achievement.
B. Suggestions
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1. For English teacher, it is useful to use anagram as one of the alternative ways in teaching vocabulary to make variation in it, so that
the students do not get bored in learning English especially in vocabulary.
2. For the students, they feel more interested and motivated in improving their vocabulary because they can gain their knowledge, remember the vocabulary in long term memory and can refresh or remain their
vocabulary.
3. For the other researchers, it is very useful as the information in
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