T. ASTRIA RUMADI: The Influence of Using Word Walls on The Students’
Ability in English Vocabulary Acquisition at The
Second Grade Students of MTsN Sukaraja Majalengka
Nowadays, English is the international language used to communicate with
people around the world. The pronunciation of English vocabulary is also necessary
to assist us in talking. This is important especially for junior high school students in
which many tools suggestion media who helped in teaching learning process. The
main function of it is for interaction and communication, which can be done in
spoken or written form. In our country, English being taught to the students from
elementary school up to University students. Although English has been taught to the
second grade students of MTsN Sukaraja Majalengka, but most of the students there
still do not have a great interest in learning English vocabulary. So, in this case the
writer would like to build up their motivation in learning English vocabulary. The
writer also wants make a new condition on their English, and uses word walls to help
their vocabulary.
The field of the research in this thesis is vocabulary and the methodology of
the research is quantitative because the researcher uses the formula of statistic,
especially by using formula of product moment.
The aim of the research carried out by the writer are to find out the data about
the students’ response of using word walls, to find out the data about students’ ability
in English vocabulary, and to find out the data about the influence of using word
walls on the students’ ability in English vocabulary acquisition at the second grade
students of MTsN Sukaraja Majalengka.
The techniques of collecting the data used by the writer are observation,
interview, questionnaire and test. The data which have been collected and analyzed
by means of analyzing some English and Indonesian book for the theoretical data.
The objective condition of the school and by means of product moment for a
quantitative data.
After the research finding have been found out and analyzed, the writer finds
that there is positive influence between x variable to y variable. First, the students’
response using word walls is good categorized, the point is 8.4. The second is the
students’ ability in English vocabulary acquisition is good as the result is 7.3 and
there is positive influence of using word walls on the students’ ability in English
vocabulary acquisition. The influence is good between two variables because the
result of correlation coefficient is 0.99. And the third is using word walls contribution
the students’ ability in English vocabulary acquisition are very high 98% and 2% is
determined by the other factors. And response using word walls is influence
positively, it is supported by the value t count (40.3) > t table (2.021) or (Ha) > (Ho)
