Improving Students' Vocabulary Mastery Through Storytelling at Eight Grade Students of SMP Negeri 1 Kupang
ABSTRACT This research studies the improvement of students’ vocabulary mastery through storytelling at eight grade students of SMPN 1 Kupang. The research aim was to find out the students’ improvement on vocabulary through storytelling. The research applied the quantitative research, using pre-experimental design in this study. There were 29 students at eighth grade of SMPN 1 Kupang which in class C, 29 students were participated in this research. The data collection was obtained by using tests, pre- tests and post-tests. While technique of data collection is found by calculating the mean score in both pre-test and post-test. The result of this study showed that there is a significance difference between pre-test and post-test as the mean score of pre-test was 39,51 and in post-test is 78,89. Based on that students’ vocabulary mastery improved 39,38 points. While, in paired sample test, there is a significance result between the pre-test and post-test based on the significance value is 0.0000.05. The hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and the hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. There is an improvement in students’ vocabulary mastery. The research questions have answered.