USING DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY (DRTA) THROUGH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT TO IMPROVE VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 8 PALEMBANG
Daftar Isi:
- The objectives of this study were to find out whether or not : (1) there was a significant difference in vocabulary achievement between the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 8 Palembang before and after they were taught by using Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) through descriptive texts, (2 )there was a a significant difference in vocabulary achievement between the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 8 Palembang who were taught by using Directed Reading Thinking and Activity (DRTA) through descriptive text and those who were not. The sample of this study were 66 eighth grade students who were divided into two groups, that are, experimental and control groups. Each group had 33 students who were taken by using purposive sampling method. To collect the data, each group was given pretest and posttest. The data were analyzed by using paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test in SPSS version 21. The result from paired sample t-test showed that the mean difference between posttest and pretest of the experimental group was 6.73 at the significance level of p < 0.05 and since t obtained was higher than t table (16.006 > 2.0369). The result from independent sample t-test of the post-test in both experimental and control groups showed that the t- obtained was 1.982 at the significance level of p<0.05 for two tailed test and (df) 64, the t-table was 1.9977,ttable was higher than t-obtained. Nevertheless, the mean difference from experimental group was higher than control group (6.727>1.121). Conclusively, DRTA was effective to be used in teaching vocabulary for the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 8 Palembang apart from the absence of significance in vocabulary achievement between experiment and control group