Implementing Song Mnemonic To Improve Students' Vocabulary Mastery At Tenth Grade Students Of As-Syafaah Vocational High School Sumbesari Jember In Academic Year 2022-2023

Fawas, Achmad (2023) Implementing Song Mnemonic To Improve Students' Vocabulary Mastery At Tenth Grade Students Of As-Syafaah Vocational High School Sumbesari Jember In Academic Year 2022-2023. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Achmad Fawas, 2023; Implementing Song Mnemonic to Improve Students’ Vocabulary Mastery at Tenth Grade Students of Asy-Syafaah Vocational High School Sumbersari Jember in Academic year 2022-2023
Keyword: Song mnemonic, Vocabulary mastery
Regarding to the role of vocabulary as a path for expressing language in either written or spoken form, vocabulary helps the students to produce meaningful sentences to express what they are going to communicate with the language itself. Vocabulary mastery becomes the most important factor that should be firstly passed by the students to further learn the language. Moreover, vocabulary mastery takes an important position in mastering 4 basic skills, therefore, the main objective of learning vocabulary is directed to improve students’ abilities in English.
The aim of this research was to improve student’s vocabulary mastery by using song mnemonic at 10th grade of Asy-Syafaah vocational high school that had problem in mastering vocabulary to learn English. The research question of this research was how can the implementation of song mnemonic improve student’s vocabulary mastery at 10th grade students of Asy-Syafaah vocational High school?
The research used Classroom Action Research (CAR), the research design was a collaborative CAR which is adapted from Kemmis & Taggart, there are four stages; planning, observing, implementing, and reflecting. The participants of this research were tenth grade students of Asy-Syafaah vocational high school which consist of 19 students. It was carried out in 1 cycle. The data collection techniques of this research used vocabulary test (multiple choice), observation, and interview to strengthen the test. The research used content validity which involved the English teacher and English lecturer as validator of vocabulary test. The research criteria of success was the students reached 75% minimum completeness criteria (KKM) determined by the school.
The obtained results conveyed that the students’ vocabulary mastery score after the cycle showed the average score was 78 and there were 17 students who passed the KKM score and for students who did not pass the KKM score were only 2 students. It could be stated this research was successful. Based on the observation and interview, it could be concluded that by applying song mnemonic to improve student’s vocabulary mastery, the students could memorize vocabulary easily, because it was not talking about the song but how the manner to memorize the vocabulary easily. So, the students could enrich vocabulary mastery to learn English.

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