IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY BY USING SONG LYRIC AT MTS NURUL YAQIN TONDANO

Abstract

This research aims at describing students’ achievement of vocabulary mastery, and is conduct at MTsS Nurul Yaqin Tondano in the academic year 2019-2020. One class in the first grade is selected as the subject of the experiment. The class consists of 25 students. These students are the participants in this study. The writers use the pre-experimental design with one class pre-test and post-test. It is quantitative research.  The test or data collecting instrument to use in this research is a self-made vocabulary test in fill-in format. The result of computing the data analysis of mean score in pre-test and post-test there is a significant difference. The means of pretest and posttest data are 3.1 and 4.9 respectively, and the standard deviations of pretest and posttest data are 1.3 and 1.2 respectively. It could conclude that the use of song lyrics as a teaching technique improve student’s vocabulary mastery is considering effective because it would create conducive and active learning condition which then motivate students to improve their vocabularies.                                    Keywords: Vocabulary Mastery, Song lyric.