Improving Students’ Vocabulary Mastery Through Total Physical Response Learning Method

Abstract

Vocabulary mastery plays a significant role in mastering any other kinds of English language skills. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of using total physical response in improving vocabulary mastery of Indonesian private Islamic junior high school students. The researchers used quasi experimental research design. Population chosen was 129 seventh grade students of an Islamic private junior high school in Indonesia. In collecting data, the researchers used vocabulary test. SPSS system was used to analyze the collected data. The result showed that the Sig. (2-tailed) score was 0.000 (< 0.05). So Ha was accepted meaning that there was a significant difference in the mean score of students’ vocabulary test achievement between experimental group and control group. Therefore, it concluded that the use of total physical response was effective to improve Indonesian private Islamic junior high school students’ vocabulary mastery.