The Use of English short story to enrich students vocabulary mastery at the eight grade of MTS Swasta Islamiyah YPI Batang Kuis in 2017/2018 academic year

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The objective of this research is to know the use of English short story to enrich students’ vocabulary mastery. The subject of this research were students of VIII-Grade at MTS.S Islamiyah YPI Batang Kuis which consisted of 35 students in the academic year 2017/2018. The instrument of collecting data were qualitative data from observation, interview, diary notes and documentation. The quantitative data were taken from test, which was carried out in the end of every cycle. The test was given to the students in the form of pre-test, post-test I in the first cycle and post-test II in the second cycle.
Based on the result of the data analysis showed that the score of students increased from the cycle I until cycle II. It was showed from the mean of the pre-test was 52.74, there was 11.42% (4 students) who got successful score criteria 75 above. In the post-test of cycle I, the mean of the post-test of cycle I was 69.37, it was higher than the pre-test. There was 22.85% (8 students) who got successful score criteria 75 above. The percentage of the students’ score from the pre-test to the post-test of cycle I was 11.43%. In the post-test of cycle II, the mean of the post-test of cycle II was 75.97 and the percentage was 57.14% (20 students) who got successful score criteria 75 above. The improvement of the students’ score from the post-test of cycle I to the post-test of cycle II was improvement 34.29%. It showed that the use English short story was effective as it could improve students’ vocabulary mastery.
Therefore, the hypothesis presented “The use of English short story to enrich students’ vocabulary mastery at MTS.S Islamiyah YPI Batang Kuis” is accepted.

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