THE EFFECTIVENESS OF QUIZ IN PRETEACHING TO IMPROVE VOCABULARY MASTERY ON THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA N 1 WADASLINTANG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015

Abstract

English is international language in the world. English is the first language formally tought in indonesia. It has been considered as an important international language in relation to globalization era.english is one of the foreign language for indonesian students, that must be learn in the school since kindergarten level until university level,in senior high school level the student still find dificulties in understanding and comprehanding the material, expecially vocabulary. Vocabulary is one of the language component that have to be tought to the srudentsin learning foreign language. To  increase the students vocabulary mastery, the teacher can use media for teaching english. By vocabulary quiz in preteachung as a media, the students can easily and interestingly.

The aim of this research is to find out wheather there is significant of using quiz in preteaching to improve vocabulary mastery. In this research, the researcher took 42 students of eleventh grade of SMA N 1 Wadaslintang in academc year 2014/2015. The researcher used XI Iis 2 which consist 21 students and XI Iis 3 which consist 21 students. The researcher conducted pre-test and post-test. The instrument used to get data, the researcher is multiple choice test. The techniques of analyzing the data are descriptive analysis in finding mean, median, mode, range, variance, standard deviation and inferential analysis is used to conclude the hypothesis.

Based on the computation, the mean score of experimental group was 72 and the mean of control group was 59. Besides, to know whether Ha is accepted or rejected the researcher consulted to the t test.The t-value was consulted to the t-table at the 5% significance level and the degree of freedom is 40. It showed that the t-table is 2.091 and the t-value was 4.491. It means that t-value was higher that t-table so, it can be concluded that using quiz in preteaching to improve students vocabulary mastery on eleventh grade of SMA N 1 Wadaslintang in academic year 2014/2015 is effective.

Key words: Effectiveness, quiz, preteaching, vocabulary mastery