Daftar Isi: The Effectiveness of Using Semantic Mapping Technique to Enhance Vocabulary Understanding: An Experimental Study at Seventh Grade Student of SMPN 1 Gunungsari in Academic Year 2015/2016

Daftar Isi:

This study was conducted to explore the effect of semantic mapping in enhancing students’ vocabulary understanding at seventh grade students of SMPN 1 Gunungsari in academic year 2015/2016. This experimental study followed a two-group pre-test and post-test design. The participants were 60 seventh grade students who were taken from class 7A and 7F. Class 7A was chosen as the control group and 7F as experimental group. The data were collected by using pre-test, treatment, and post-test in term of vocabulary knowledge tests. T-test was used to analyze the data. The result of the study found that there is significant effect of using Semantic Mapping technique on students’ vocabulary understanding. It can be seen that with the degree of freedom 58, the t-test value (3.28) is higher than the t-table at significance level of .05 / 95% (2.0017). It indicates that the students in the experimental group outperformed those in the control class in understanding words. It can be inferred that semantic mapping is an effective technique to enhance vocabulary understanding at seventh grade students of SMPN 1 Gunungsari. This also leads to the implication that the semantic mapping can improve junior school students’ vocabulary understanding and is promising to vocabulary teaching and learning.