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IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY USING FLASHCARDS

Vocabulary is one of the important elements in teaching English. Based on 
pre-research, the fourth grade students of SD Negeri II Watuagung in the 
academic year of 2011/2012 had problems in mastering vocabulary. It could be 
seen from two indicators: first, their vocabulary score was low. Second, the 
students did not have motivation during teaching-learning process. To overcome 
the problems, classroom action research is used. It implemented flashcards as the 
media. The aim of this research is to improve students’ vocabulary mastery and 
students’ motivation using flashcards. There are two cycles of action. In each 
cycle, the procedure of the research consists of planning, acting, observing, and 
reflecting. In collecting the data, the researcher used qualitative and quantitative 
methods. The technique of qualitative data was interview, observation, document 
analysis, and test. For the quantitative data, the data are analyzed by finding and 
comparing the mean scores in pre-test and post-test (descriptive statistics). Based 
on interview, observation, analyzing the document, and test result, the students 
made improvement in vocabulary mastery. The students can learn vocabulary 
more easy than before. When flashcards are used, in the first and the second 
cycle, students are active and enthusiastic in joining learning activity. The tests 
score results shows an improvement of the students’ achievement. The students’ 
mean score in the pre-test is 45.70, in post-test 1 is 70.52, and in post-test 2 is 
80.13. It can be concluded that teaching English vocabulary by using flashcards 
as media does improve the students’ vocabulary mastery. The result of the 
research implies that English teachers need to choose the appropriate media in 
teaching vocabulary; one of them is flashcards.