The Use Of Illustrated Narrative Text To Improve Student’s Vocabulary Mastery

The purpose of this research is to describe the implementation of illustrated narrative text in increasing students' vocabulary and to find out the improvement in students' vocabulary after applying illustrated narrative text during the teaching and learning process. It conducted to explore how a combination of visual media in the form of illustrations and interesting stories from a narrative could help students improve their vocabulary mastery. The subjects of this research are students from class VII 1 at MTsN 4 Banda Aceh which consisted of 32 students. The writer used experimental research with a quantitative approach that was conducted in three meetings. This study applied pre-experimental research which consisted of one group pretest-posttest design. To find out the development of students' vocabulary mastery, the writer provided several tests. The tests were held before the implementation of illustrated narrative text and after students got all the treatment. To analyze the data, the writer used descriptive statistic analysis in order to be able to describe and provide an overview of the frequency distribution of variables in a study and to see the general characteristic of the data. The results of this research indicated the improvement in students' vocabulary after implementing illustrated narrative text. This achievement showed by the average of students' scores, the standard deviation, as well as their responses during the learning process. The average score of students in the pretest was 62,59 then increased to 79,78 in the post-test. Then, the standard deviation of the student's pre-test was 354,1 which is lower than the standard deviation of the student's post-test, 451,3.