IMPROVING ENGLISH VOCABULARY MASTERY OF THE FIFTH udGRADE STUDENTS OF SDN GURAWAN SURAKARTA BY USING udCONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING (CTL)

摘要

Muhammad Fitriyanto, IMPROVING ENGLISH VOCABULARY udMASTERY OF THE FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SDN GURAWAN udSURAKARTA BY USING CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING ud(CTL) ( A Classroom Action Research). Thesis, Surakarta: Teacher Training udand Education Faculty, Sebelas Maret University Surakarta, April 2010udThis research was carried out to show how Contextual Teaching andudLearning (CTL) is used to improve the students‟ vocabulary mastery. The udresearcher conducted a classroom action research from January to February 2010udat Class 5 SDN Gurawan Surakarta.udThe researcher conducted the teaching learning activities in two cycles. udEach cycle consisted of four steps: planning, implementation, observation, and udreflection. In cycle one, the researcher tried to make the students more enjoyable udin doing the activities in the classroom and to make them beco me more interestedudwith the lesson so that their vocabulary mastery might increase by applying CTL.udIn this cycle, the students‟ vocabulary mastery increased but not optimally yet.udMoreover, there were still problems that arose in this cycle; some students were udstill shy and were confused with some of the teacher‟s commands. In cycle two,udthe researcher tried to solve the previous problems by focusing on the students‟udcomprehension toward the commands to make the teaching and learning process udmore effective and doing the activities in group first before in individually. Theudresearcher gave more meetings and repetition to ensure that the students were udready to speak and were not shy anymore. In this cycle, the researcher was able to udsolve the problems and the lesson run well.udFrom the explanation above the researcher concluded that after he udconducted the actions the students‟ vocabulary mastery increased optimally. udBefore he conducted the actions the mean score of the pre-test was 55.4, and after uddoing the actions the mean score of the post -test was 81.6.udThe result of the research shows that after implementing the CTL, the udstudents‟ level of enjoyment in doing the activities in the classroom increased. udThe students were not shy any longer and enjoyed in doing the activities. Finally, udtheir vocabulary mastery improved well.