Improving students’ vocabulary mastery by using “play school dvd”

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Arsidi Puspaningdyah - S890809001 - Sekolah Pascasarjana

The objectives of this research are to know whether Play School DVD can improve students’ vocabulary mastery and to know the strengths and weaknesses when Play school DVD is applied to improve the students’ vocabulary mastery. The subject of the research was the first grader of Kalam Kudus Christian Primary School in the 2010/2011 academic year. The procedures of the research consist of planning, action, observation, and reflection. In collecting the data, the researcher used questionnaire, interview, field notes, and test. To analyze the quantitative data, the researcher applied a descriptive statistics. It was used to compare the scores and means of the pre-test and post-test. The pre-test was conducted in the pre-research while the post-test was conducted at the end of Cycle 1 and 2. The result of the test was used to know how well the students’ vocabulary mastery is. To analyze the qualitative data, the researcher analyzed the improvement of the teaching learning process by analyzing the results of questionnaire, interview, and field notes using Constant Comparative Method. The applying Play School DVD in the process of teaching and learning vocabulary can solve the students’ problem in mastering the four aspects in vocabulary. The result of the tests shows that Play School DVD can improve the students’ mastery in vocabulary. The improvement can be found by comparing the average score of the Pre-test and of Post-tests in Cycle 1 and 2. The average score of the Pre-test is 38.87, Post-test 1 is 66.58, and Post-test 2 is 86.25. The results of questionnaire, interview, and field notes show the strength and the weaknesses of Play School DVD. The strength when Play School DVD is applied in teaching vocabulary are: (a) it can attract the students’ attention that make them concentrate on the lesson; (b) it triggers the students’ curiosity and interest; (c) it can motivate the students to learn English; (d) it is an effective media to teach vocabulary; (e) it helps the students to get or learn real English. The weaknessess when Play School DVD is applied in teaching vocabulary are: (a) teachers can be passive and leave his/her job to the DVD; (b) long and monotonous DVD will be boring. The researcher comes to the conclusion that there is an improvement of the students in mastering vocabulary using Play School DVD. There are also some strength and weaknessess when Play School DVD is applied in teaching vocabulary. Therefore, Play School DVD can improve students’ vocabulary mastery. Based on the result of the research, it is recommended that teachers and students should use Play School DVD as a good alternative media in reaching good vocabulary mastery.