Sri Hartati: The Influence of Audio Lingual Method on the Students’
Vocabulary Achievement at the First Year Students of MTsN
Leuwimunding
Language as means for communication takes an important role in our daily
activities. In this modern era, people are demanded to acquire more than one
language. One of the important languages that should be mastered is English. But,
students usually difficult to express their ideas in English. There are because of the
students are less in mastering vocabulary. So, the teachers have to find out the
appropriate method for teaching English vocabulary. That is why the writer takes a
research about the influence of audio lingual method to the students’ achievement in
English vocabulary.
One of the important things in the process of teaching and learning English is
vocabulary. Vocabulary is a basic need in communication. It plays an important role in
the four language skills. By mastering vocabulary, students will be able to produce
many sentences either in spoken or written texts. Knowing a language may mean
knowing its vocabulary. The Audio Lingual method is the method which focuses in
repetition some words to memorize. In the execution of learning process, Audio
Lingual method give more practice, drill, memorize vocabularies, and the students
memorize and practice some vocabulary unconsciously.
The objective of the research is to find out the influence of audio lingual
method on the students’ vocabulary achievement at the first year students of MTsN
Leuwimunding. The method of the research is quantitative research. The researcher
does the research by using the formula of statistic, especially by using the formula of
product moment correlation by Pearson. Then to collect the data the researcher use
the techniques of observation, interview, test, and questionnaire.
MTsN Leuwimunding is the Islamic junior high school which has been giving
general and religious instruction and education well-balanced. It has complete enough
facilities. The instructional processes were done in the classroom. In this research the
writer knew that the students give a good response to the application of audio lingual
method, it can be considered as ‘positive response’. The average of students’
vocabulary achievement after taught by using audio lingual method is ‘good’, they
get a ‘high score’. It shows that there is ‘significant influence’ between the students’
response to the application of audio lingual method and the students’ vocabulary
achievement.
The result of product moment correlation between the application of audio
lingual method on the students’ vocabulary achievement is 0.67. It means that the null
hypothesis is rejected and the research hypothesis received. It is prove by mark of
testing hypothesis that the result of rxy is higher than rtable-product-moment where rxy
is 0.67 and rtable with 5% significant is 0.361 or robserved > rtable (0.67>0.361)