The Effectiveness of Graphic Providers In Teaching Text Verbs of Accounts (Quasi Experimental Study In Public Junior High Schools)

Abstract

This study was conducted under the considerations of the observation in SMPN 20 Kendari that many students found difficulties in understanding vocabulary. The objectives of this study were to find out the significance of the use of the graphic organizers on vocabulary achievement and to find out whether the use of graphic organizers  for  teaching  vocabulary  of  recount  text  is effective  to  the  eighth graders of SMPN 20 Kendari. To  gain  the  objectives,  the  writer  did  a  quasi  experimental  research  by using non- randomized control group pretest-posttest design. The subjects of this study were the students in class 8A and 8H of SMPN 20 Kendari. 8A was the control group and 8H was the experimental group. In this study, the writer gave the  students  pre-test,  treatment,  and  post-test.  The  pre-test  was  given  to  both groups using the same instrument. They were asked to answer some questions of vocabulary test. The treatment was given in three meetings. The treatment in the experimental  group  was  using  graphic  organizers,  while  the  treatment  in  the control group was lecturing. The post-test was conducted after the treatment given to  both  groups  using  the same  instrument as  the  pre-test  but  the  position of question numbers were reshuffled. The result of the analysis using t-test showed that the experimental group got better score than the control group. In the pre-test, the average score of the experimental group was 68.87 and the control group was 68.39. In the post-test, the  average  score  of  experimental  group was  83.55  and  the  control  group  was 74.52. tTe result of the t-test was 2.14 and t-table was 2.00. It means that the t- value was higher than t-table (2.14>2.00). In conclusion, graphic organizers were effective to improve students‟ mastery of vocabulary in recount text. Moreover, the writer hopes that the other English teachers would use graphic organizers as one of strategies in teaching vocabulary.