The Implementation of Word Wall Media on Improving Students’ English Vocabulary

Language is a tool to communicate with others and vocabulary is the basic knowledge to have a fluence languages. The students should master vocabulary to improve their language competence. The research conducted at Junior High School 8 Banda Aceh based on their lack of vocabularies. The formulations of the problem in this research are to find out the implementation of word wall media in improving students’ vocabulary and to know the students perceive toward the implementation of word wall media. Therefore, this research aims to investigate students’ vocabulary mastery improvement by using word wall media. In this research, the researcher collects the data by using the techniques; teaching, tests, and questionnaires. The researcher uses the statistical calculation in data analyzed. From the data obtained, the use of word wall media influenced students’ vocabulary mastery. It can be witnessed from the pre-test and post-test result or before and after treatment was given. In pre-test result 24% students pass on test and 76% students fail. After being given treatment, 100% successful on tests and 0% fail. Moreover, the hypothesis result showed that Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected because t0 value is higher than ttable value (2.064 < 25.35 > 2.797.). It means, the implementation of word wall media successfully improves students’ vocabulary.