The Use of Webtoon To Improve Students' Vocabulary Mastery

In the learning and teaching process, vocabulary is a component of language that contains a list of words and their limitations whose uses are based on the function. Vocabulary has many all forms of words such as basic words, affixed words, repeated words, compound words, proverbs, antonyms, and synonyms. Therefore, there are many students who need to master vocabulary, because they need to master vocabulary mastery. The purpose of this research is to examine the use of Webtoon as a learning media to improve students’ vocabulary skills on the second-grade students at SMP 3 Negeri Banda Aceh. The researcher used quantitative and qualitative approach to a pre-experimental and interview as study’s instruments in research design. The total number of participants were 29 students that participated in this research. The data collection was obtained by using the test (pretest and posttest) and providing a few questions, while the technique of data analysis is used T-Test and semi-structured interview. This study discovered students’ vocabulary achievement improved by increasing the mean score in the experimental class 31,72 in the pre-test and 74,48 in the post-test. The result of this study shows the significant difference between pretest and posttest because t count > t table (8,84 > 2.048) so that the hypothesis Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected. Hence, it can be concluded that the use of Webtoon as a learning medium can improve students’ vocabulary skill and Webtoon can be used as a teaching tool in the classroom to assist all of the students grow and refine their vocabulary in SMP 3 N Banda Aceh.