The Application of Special Self-Made Word Card for Vocabulary Teaching Particularly Irregular Verbs

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10.2991/icss-19.2019.47How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Special Self-Made Word Card; Vocabulary; Irregular Verbs.

Abstract

The aim of this creativity research is to find out if the application of self-made word cards if effective in the teaching of vocabulary; particularly irregular verbs or not. The study was conducted at the English Department FBS UNIMA. The population was the fourth semester students and sample chosen was class H consists of forty students. This research used a quantitative research through pre-experimental design with one group pre-test and post-test design. The instrument of this research was tests pre-test and post-test. The scores of the two tests were analysed statistically. The result of data analysis showed that the mean score of the post-test(84.5) was higher than the pre-test (41.37). It means that the mean score of the post-test increased significantly from 41.37 to 84.5. This was accordance with the percentage of the students whose scores were above 65 in the pre-test was only 17.5% but in the post test; it was 85%. The research findings above show us that the special self-made cards are effective to be applied in teaching English vocabulary especially irregular verbs with their meanings and functions. Based on the result of this research; it is suggested that English teachers try to make and use word cards and teach students how to play with them as games in order that they will enjoy learning vocabulary and finally their mastery of vocabulary can be improved.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Fivy Andries
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