Improving Student's Vocabulary In Reading Descriptive Text By Using Personal Vocabulary Notes

The aim of this research is to improve students' vocabulary especially recognizing the word meaning in reading descriptive text. This research was conducted on the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 10 Pontianak in academic year 2014/2015. In this research, the subject is class XD that consists of 9 students. The researcher conducted a classroom action research in her research and helped by the teacher during the research period. The data were collected by using direct and measurement technique. The tools of data collecting were observation checklist, field note, and test. Personal Vocabulary Notes was used as the technique in this research which is conducted the research in two cycles. The research findings showed that the mean score of students' vocabulary test in the first cycle is 52.22 to 77.80 in the second cycle which means it successfully passed the KKM. It can be concluded that the students' vocabulary taught by using personal vocabulary notes in reading descriptive text was improved