Improving students’ vocabulary mastery through gesture (A Classroom Action Research at the Third Grade of SD Muhammadyah Bekonang, Mojolaban Academic Year 2008/2009)

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Wulan Susanti - - Fak. KIP

This research is a classroom action research. This classroom action research was conducted at the third grade of SD Muhammadiyah Bekonang, Mojolaban academic year 2008/2009. The objective of this research is to know whether the implementation of gesture is able to improve the student's vocabulary mastery or not. In this research, the writer only focuses on the vocabulary mastery on meaning. The action hypothesis of this research is that the implementation of gesture is able to improve the student's vocabulary mastery. This classroom action research was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consisted of four steps, namely planning, action, observation, and reflection. In collecting the data, the writer use observation, test and documents. The writer was the teacher and her partner was the observer in this implementation of gesture. The result of the observation served as field notes, while the test was conducted before and after the action in each cycle. The result of the research shows that gesture can improve the student's vocabulary mastery. It also improved the students participation in learning vocabulary. It made the students learn English much easier. Moreover, the student's vocabulary achievement during the research was better than their previous vocabulary achievement. In addition, their vocabulary mean score in the first cycle was 5,993 and improved to 7, 003 in the second cycle.