The Effects Of Suggestopedia Method On Students’ Vocabulary Mastery

Vocabulary is found in every aspect of language so that vocabulary affects student learning activities in learning English. Vocabulary is a list or collection of words for a particular language or a list or collection of words that may be used by speakers of a particular language. Suggestopedia Method is one of the method that can be used to help students learn vocabulary. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of Suggestopedia Method on Students' Vocabulary Mastery. This research was a quantitative research with experimental design. The population in this study was students of SMKN 1 Mesjid Raya which amounted to approximately 355 students. The two classes that were selected as research samples were 37 students of class X Desain Komunikasi Visual (DKV) as experimental group and 26 students of class X Tata Busana (TBS) as control group by cluster random sampling. The data collected by giving a multiple choice test. Similiar tests was used for pre-test and post-test. Each test consisted of 15 items included 4 option, namely a,b,c,d. The results using the Wilcoxon test showed a significance value of 0.000 < 0.05. This means that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. Thus it can be concluded that the use of Suggestopedia method has a significant effect on students ' vocabulary mastery. Students who were taught using the Suggestopedia method (experimental group) gained scored higher than students who were not taught using the Suggestopedia method (control group).