THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING VIDEO IN IMPROVING ENGLISH VOCABULARY MASTERY AND READING COMPREHENSION AT FIFTH-GRADE STUDENTS OF SD NEGERI PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

This research is aimed to find out whether the use of video effective or not in Improving English Vocabulary Mastery and Reading Comprehension at Fifth Grade Students of SD Negeri Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013.

Type of research quantitative with an experimental method. The population of this study is the fifth-grade students of SD Negeri Purworejo. There are 38 students in the fifth-grade class A, so the population is 38 students. the researcher takes all of the students in the fifth-grade that are 38 students as sample. The researcher used saturated sampling technique to take the sample from the population for the research, because the researcher uses all members of population as a sample. The independent variable is the use of video in learning vocabulary. In improving student’s vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension are the dependent variable. The researcher used test as the instrument in this research. The techniques of analyzing the data are descriptive statistics in finding mean, mode, median, standard deviation and inferential analysis is used to prove the hypothesis test. The critical value used in test is α = 0.05.

The result of the analysis shows that before giving treatment, the mean score of pre-test of vocabulary mastery is 67.5 and of reading comprehension is 75 . After giving the treatment, the mean score of post-test of vocabulary mastery test is 80 and of reading comprehension test is 85 . Besides, to find out whether Ha is accepted or rejected the researcher consulted to the t test. The result of t-value is 10.934 on vocabulary mastery test and 9.532 on reading comprehension test, then the researcher consults to the critical value on the t-table using 5% (0.05) level significance and the degree of freedom is 38. It means that in the vocabulary test t-value > t-table (10.934 > 2.021) and in the reading test t-value > t-table (9.532 > 2.021). Based on the result of this research, it can be concluded that the use of video is effective in improving English vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension at fifth grade students of SD Negeri Purworejo in academic year 2012/2013.

Key words: vocabulary mastery, reading comprehension, video