THE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGLISH VOCABULARY MASTERY OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 13 BONE THROUGH PICTURE

Abstract

The goal of the study is to determine how well students acquire vocabulary through pictures. Two cycles of classroom action research were used in this study. There were four meetings in a cycle. This indicates that there were two cycles of eight meetings. This action research project was conducted in the classroom at SMA Negeri 13 Bone's eighth grade. The subject of this research was class ten in the 2023–2024 academic year, with a student number of about 39. They consisted of 22 boys and 17 girls. The instruments of this research were an observation sheet and a vocabulary test. The findings of the research showed students' scores in vocabulary mastery through pictures in cycle I were 6.12 for nouns and 6.08 for verbs, while in cycle II they were 7.38 for nouns and 7.33 for verbs. Thus, the students’ activation in learning vocabulary through pictures in the first meeting of cycle I was 49%, then it became 80% in the fourth meeting of cycle II. Based on the findings and discussion of the research, the researcher concluded that using pictures improves the students’ vocabulary in the tent grade of SMA Negeri 13 Bone.