Dewi, Nur Yunika Cipta (2018) Increasing The Students’ Vocabulary Mastery By Using Semantic Mapping Strategy at The Seventh Graders of SMP N 6 Metro. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

Vocabulary is the basic skill of language learning, without vocabulary we cannot communicate both spoken and written. Vocabulary is defined as words in a specific language of freestanding items of language that have meaning. Moreover, students often ignored to master this skill. This condition was found by the researcher at the seventh graders of SMP N 6 Metro where many students had difficulties in English learning especially in vocabulary mastery, so it caused their result of learning was low. To increase the students’ vocabulary mastery, the researcher used semantic mappingstrategy as the strategy in learning process. The aimed of this research is to know whether the used of semantic mappingstrategy can increase the students’ vocabulary mastery, also this research as the effort to increase the students’ vocabulary mastery.This research was class room action research (CAR) which had been conducted in SMP N 6 Metro at the 7. (8) Class and followed by 30 students in academic year 2017/2018. Thisresearch conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consist of planning, action, observation and reflection. Object of this research was the students’ vocabulary mastery. In collecting the data the researcher used tests (pre-test, post test I, and post test II),observation and documentation.

This result of this research shows that the use of semantic mappingstrategy is effective in increasing the students’ vocabulary mastery at the seventh graders of SMP N 6 Metro. It proves by the students’ average score from pre-test is 53.3, in post test I is 62.5, and become 74.8 in post test II. This show that there is an increasing on the average score and total of the students who passed the test from pre-test, post test I and post test II. It means that the use of semantic mappingstrategy is effective in increasing the students’ vocabulary mastery.

Keywords: Increase, Semantic Mapping, Vocabulary Mastery

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