THE INFLUENCE OF USING MAKE – A MATCH MODEL ON THE
STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGLISH VOCABULARY AT THE
SEVENTH CLASS OF MTS NURUL HUDA TIMBANG
KABUPATEN KUNINGAN
DIAN PUSPITA MAYASARI: “THE INFLUENCE OF USING MAKE – A
MATCH MODEL ON THE STUDENTS’
ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGLISH VOCABULARY
AT THE SEVENTH CLASS OF MTS NURUL
HUDA TIMBANG KABUPATEN KUNINGAN“
The teacher should be able to create an interesting method and technique in
order to obtain a good result and avoid the student boredom. Using make–a match
model, students can have a lot of fun and get rid off their tiresome during the lesson.
Using make–a match model in the process of English learning is demanded by
students, because they can practice and express their idea, feeling, and attention in
other to understand and improve their English vocabulary.
Vocabulary means the words of a language, it means that all the words of
language are named as vocabulary, either idiom, phrases, part of speech or other
written and spoken words. A vocabulary usually develops with age, and serves as a
useful and fundamental tool for communication and acquiring knowledge. Acquiring
an extensive vocabulary is one of the largest challenges in learning a second language
or foreign language. The writer uses make–a match model for doing the research.
Make–a match is a type of cooperative learning model. This model can make the
situation in the class be noisy, but fun and happy.
The field of this research is method of teaching. The purposes of this research is
to know the students’ response to the application of using make – a match model and
the influence of using make – a match model on the students’ achievement in English
vocabulary. The research product hoped English teacher in MTs Nurul Huda Timbang
Kabupaten Kuningan is able to creative and innovative in the teaching.
In this research, the writer use quantitative research. It refers to the systematic
empirical investigation of research phenomena via statistical, mathematical, or
computational techniques. The objective of quantitative research is to develop and
employ mathematical models, theories and/or hypothesis pertaining to phenomena.
The sample of this research is taken by using simple random sampling.
The result of the research is known that the students’ response to the application
of using make–a match model in the learning and teaching vocabulary at seventh
class of MTs. Nurul Huda Timbang Kabupaten Kuningan is 87.71%. Students’
achievement is by using t-test at the level significance (a) 0.05, is gotten tvalue is
bigger than ttable, that is 2.77 > 2.042, it shown that there is difference between pre-test
and post-test is significant. It is means that before given the material the students have
low-ability, but after the students given materials vocabulary by using the make-a
match model student's ability increases. The influence of using make–a match model
on the students’ achievement in English vocabulary is 59.29% and 40.71% by other
factors, like as the delivery technique of content by teacher, or the students’
collaboration in a group