THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE (TPR) TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY (AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY AT THE SEVENTH GRADE OF SMP N 3 AJIBARANG) IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2009/2010

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ABSTRACT Nofra Ilwana. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE (TPR) TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY (AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY AT THE SEVENTH GRADE OF SMP NEGERI 3 AJIBARANG) IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2009/2010. A Thesis. Surakarta. Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Sebelas Maret University. October. 2010. The aims of this research are: (1) to identify whether Total Physical Response could improve students’ vocabulary mastery of SMP N 3 Ajibarang in academic year 2009/2010, (2) to find out which method is more effective to enhance students’ vocabulary mastery of junior high school students, Total Physical Response or Grammar Translation Method. This study used an experimental research. This research was conducted from March 23, 2010 to April 29, 2010. The population of this research was all the seventh grade of SMP N 3 Ajibarang in 2009/2010 academic year. The writer took the sample by using cluster random sampling in which the students were divided into two groups, 34 students belong to the experimental group and 36 students belong to the control group. The research instruments used to collect the data in this study were test and documentation. The result of test was the students’ scores of the experimental and the control group. The data, then, were analyzed by using t-test formula. The data analysis of the research showed that (1) there was a significant difference in vocabulary achievement between students taught by Total Physical Response and those taught by Grammar Translation Method, (2) the group taught by Total Physical Response had a better achievement in vocabulary mastery than those taught by Grammar Translation Method. The result of computation showed that the t-observation (to) is 4.20. The critical value for the significance level of α = 0.05 with the degree freedom (df) = 68 was 1.67. Since the obtained t-value (4.20) was higher than the theoretical value (1.67) or tobservation was higher than ttable (to>tt), there was a significant difference between the students taught using TPR (experimental group) and those taught using GTM (control group). Besides, the writer found that the mean scores of two groups were different. The experimental group got a better mean score of the post test (7.76) compared to the control group who got (6.58), Total Physical Response (TPR) could enhance students’ vocabulary mastery than Grammar Translation Method (GTM). So, the writer concludes that the use of Total Physical Response (TPR) enhances students’ vocabulary mastery especially for the seventh grade of SMP N 3 Ajibarang in the academic year 2009/2010. It means that Total Physical Response is more effective than the use of Grammar Translation Method (GTM).