Building Grade 10 Students’ Vocabulary Achievement Through Reading the Newspaper at SMK 45 Lembang

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Using the newspaper as a medium for learning English is presented as an approach to stimulate grade-level students’ interest in reading and to build their vocabulary. The study involved participants from SMK 45 Lembang, selecting two classes (XB and XE) and assigning them as control and experimental groups through random selection. After one month of different treatments, the experimental class showed higher gain values. Mann-Whitney U results indicated significant differences in vocabulary growth, with Asymp. Sig. of 0.000 and Z of 4.847, concluding a positive impact.

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Acuity (5)1, 12-28 Building Grade 10 students’ Vocabulary Achievement Through Reading the News Paper at SMK 45 Lembang Caroline V Katemba 1 , Rafael R Parillia2 Corresponding author: Caroline ([linakatemba@gmail.com](linakatemba@gmail.com)) Universitas Advent Indonesia 1 Attila Management, Flow Health & Mitigate Cyber Services, CA. USA2 DOI 10.35974/acuity.v4i2.1089 Journal’s name: Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature & Culture Vol. 5, Number 1. Published January 10,2020 ABSTRACT Using the newspaper as a medium of learning English is a unique way to stimulate students’ interest in reading, since students at this age is a student who has dropped their interest in reading. Therefore, the researchers decided to use the newspaper as a medium to build students’ vocabulary. Researcher chose participant in the study of class XB and XE in SMK 45 Lembang. The school gave these two classes as the sample, because believed that each class has the cognitive abilities and knowledge that are relatively equal. In this study, researchers randomly selected from among the two classes used as a sample for the Control and Experimental Class. As the result, researchers found class X E as Control class, and X B as an Experimental class. The study lasted for a full month, in which each class received different treatment. As a result, the Gain value of Experimental class is higher than the Control class. Moreover, based on the result of the data analysis with the Mann-Whitney U test method, it showed that that there were significant differences in Students’ Vocabulary growth, between Control class and Experimental class. Based on the calculation of Non-parametric MannWhitney U test, the gain data between Experimental Class and Control Class show the value of Asymp Sig. (0.000), Zα (0.05) and the value of Z (4.847) . Z α (1.96) . Therefore, it can be concluded that the method of using newspaper as a teaching material has a positive impact in the absorption and growth in students’ vocabulary. Keywords: vocabulary achievement, reading, newspaper INTRODUCTION “Now a days, the mastery of English competence is needed in facing the globalizationsera. That makes the government of Indonesia do some efforts. One of them is by promoting English as a local content at elementary school, to start the proficiency of English from the early age. Therefore in Indonesia, English is viewed not only as an indispensable vehicle of access to Acuity (5)1, 12-28 scholarly disciplines but also as a mediun for international commnications as mentioned by Katemba (2013) . Today, there are many problems in education. The problems occur no only in terms of the government’s limited funds to provide adequate facilities for the school and students, or the moral decline of students, which recently became widespread in media discussion because of frequent fights among school students, but also from what might be considered important by most people, that is about the students’ interest in reading especially reading when then text is written or printed in English. This problem actually will have a considerable impact on the continuity of education, especially in Indonesia. One of the consequences of the reading problem it will decrease student’s interest in a literary quality. The researcher’s argue is that it is impossible for someone who has not no interest in reading, will have a good insight in education. This will lead to poor quality of the paper to be produced, because a little insight will influence the content and scope of the writing itself, especially in English language education. Furthermore, the researcher assumes that the lack of insight into a particular student in English, due to lack of vocabulary that is owned by the students. As explained above, the lack of insight due to student disinterest in reading will result in a lack of quality writing produced. Well, the poor quality of the writing is the result of lack of v

FAQs

Why was the newspaper used as a teaching medium in this study?

The study used newspapers to stimulate students’ interest in reading and to build their vocabulary as an English learning medium.

How were the control and experimental classes determined?

Two classes from SMK 45 Lembang (XB and XE) were used as samples, and participants were randomly selected to form the control and experimental classes.

What did the Mann-Whitney U test show about vocabulary growth?

The analysis found significant differences in students’ vocabulary growth between the control and experimental classes, with Asymp. Sig. (0.000) and Z (4.847).

What overall conclusion was reached about using newspapers for vocabulary?

The study concluded that using newspapers as teaching material has a positive impact on students’ vocabulary absorption and growth.

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