Wisnu Widagdo , 2201413113 (2020) THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AESOP’S FABLES TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This final project is about using Aesop's Fable stories in improving student's vocabulary. The research was applied to the sixth-graders student of SDI Darul Huda Semarang in the academic year of 2017/2018. The objective of this study is to find out what extent the use of Aesop's Fable stories can improve the vocabulary mastery of elementary school students. The techniques used for obtaining data were tests and questionnaires. The data were taken by administering a pretest and a posttest. This research was conducted in four meetings; one meeting was for the pretest, two meetings were for the treatments, and the last one was for the posttest. The result of this research showed that the mean scores of the pretest from the two groups were nearly similar. The mean score of the experimental group was 68,6 and the control group was 68,0. After the treatments, the mean score of both groups increased. The mean score result of the post-test in the experimental group was 80.4 which was higher than the control group that was 74,1. Further, the t-test result of the difference of two means was 2,732 in which it was higher than the t-table (1,998) for α = 5% and df = 62. Based on the test result above, it can be concluded that Aesop's Fable stories "improved the vocabulary of the sixth graders of SDI Darul Huda Semarang in the academic year of 2017/2018. Finally, I suggest "Aesop's Fable stories" should be used as an alternative technique to improve the vocabulary of the elementary students.

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