IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY THROUGH TOTALudPHYSICAL RESPONSEud(CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH AT THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OFudMA AL-MAUNAH KEPUH)

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Fitria Agustin. 1410130250: Improving Students’ Vocabulary Through Total PhysicaludResponse ( Classroom Action Research At The Second Grade Students Of Ma Al-MaunahudKepuh)udThe research was conducted based on the background of the problem that language isudrelated to the word. Word as the basic of the language used in communication. In languageudeducational field also called as “vocabulary”. As Hatch and Brown (1995: 1) stated that,ud“Vocabulary is the foundation to build languages, which plays a fundamental role inudcommunication”. Improving students’ vocabulary is very important in language learningudbecause, knowing a lot of words in a foreign language is very important. The more words weudknow, the better our chance of understanding or making ourselves understood.udThe main problem in this research is the students’ difficulties are mainly in Englishudvocabulary. Especially, in the second class at MA AL-Maunah Kepuh. The students’ still notudunderstand about meaning the words or sentences in a text book. So, this research implementsudthe TPR method that is supposed to be the suitable method to solve the students difficultiesudare mainly in English vocabulary to improve students’ vocabulary. The aims of this researchudare to know about the implementation of TPR method to improve students’ vocabulary inudlearning English and to know about improvement of students’ vocabulary by using TPRudmethod.udThe method of research is Classroom Action Research (CAR) method. This researchuduses the Classroom Action Research procedure of Arikunto’s design (2012: 16). It consists ofudtwo cycles in which each cycle contains four phases: planning, acting, observing andudreflecting. The data is taken from the result of observation and test. Before the sample isudtested the test instrument is tested in other school to find out its reliability and also counted itsudvalidity. The researcher takes 25 sample for the object of the research. The result of the data isuddescribed and analized if the data is already improved. The design is redo because the dataudresult show that the test result is not improve. The instrument of collecting data areudobservation and test, the instrument’s test has been tested for validity and reliability.udThe result of the research shows that the result of pretest and posttest (cycle 1 and cycleud2), there were a significant improvement from 3 students who achieved the minimal masteryudlevel criterion or Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal (KKM) in pretest become 8 students whoudachieved the minimal mastery level criterion or Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal (KKM) inudposttest in the first cycle and in the second cycle there were 13 students who achieved theudminimal mastery level criterion or Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal (KKM). The average score ofudthe pre-test before CAR is 43.27 and the percentage is 16.6%. In cycle 1, The average posttestud1 is 56.38 and the class percentage which achieved the mastery level criterion or KriteriaudKetuntasan Minimal (KKM) is 44.4%. And then in cycle 2, the average score of posttest 2 isud70.11 and the class percentage improve 66.6%. So, it can be said that using Total Physicaludresponse can improve students’ vocabulary.udKey words: vocabulary, total physical reponse, classroom action research