THE EFFECTIVENESS OF 9GAG APPLICATION AS AN ENGLISH TEACHING MEDIUM TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY

Abstract

The thesis aimed to find out the improvement of the students’ vocabulary at the 11^th grade of SMA PGRI Sungguminasa in 2019/2020 Academic year in term of 9GAG application as an English teaching media. This research was a Pre-Experimental which was implemented to 29 students in class XI IPS. It consisted Pre-test, give treatment, and post-test. First meeting gave pre-test, second until fifth meeting gave treatment and the fifth meeting or last meeting too gave students post-test. Every test there were twenty five question for knowing the students’ vocabulary mastery. The researcher findings indicated that 9GAG Application as an English teaching medium effective could improve the students’ vocabulary mastery. The result of the data indicated that, there was difference between students’ pre-test and post-test. The mean score of post-test (85.24) was greater than the mean score of pre-test (73.45). From t-test, the researchers found that, the value of t-test (5.668) was greater than t-table (2.048) at the level of significance 0.05 with degree of freedom (df) = 28. It means that there is significant difference between the students’ vocabulary mastery before and after using 9GAG Application. It is also said that the null hypothesis () is rejected and the alternative () is accepted. Based on the finding and discussion of the research, the researcher concluded that, the using of 9GAG Application as an English teching medium could improve the students’ vocabulary at the eleventh grade of SMA PGRI Sungguminasa.