IMPROVING STUDENTS' VOCABULARY MASTERY BY USING SHORT STORIES

The objective of this research was find out the process of teaching vocabulary by using short stories to make students’ interested and to find out whether short stories can be successful in improving students’ vocabulary mastery or not of the fourth grade students’ of MI Tarbiyatul Banin wal Banat Trucuk Bojonegoro. This research method employed quasi-experimental design. The problem statement was: “How to teach vocabulary by using short stories to make students’ interested” and “Can be short stories improve vocabulary mastery”. To answer the problem statement, which was related to the objective of the research, the researcher applied mix method (qualitative and quantitative method). The instrument of research was observation and a test used pre-test and post-test. The data collected through qualitatively by observation were observe the english teacher used fieldnote and quantitatively used pre-test and post-test were firstly tabulated and the analyzed in spss program 16.0 for windows. The sample of the research was the Fourth grade students’ of MI Tarbiyatul Banin wal Banat Bojonegoro. The total sample was 40 students. The researcher used total sampling technique in this research. It means that the sample in that class was all taken.The result of the obervation indicated that the process of teaching vocabulary using short stories was divided into three step. To find out the whether short stories can be improving vocabulary mastery result were from the comparing the score between t-count and t-table. The resulf of the data indicated that alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted, it mean that using short stories had good effect to improvement the students’ vocabulary mastery. Mean pre-test score of experimental group was 67.15 and mean post-test score of experimental group was 85.35. Mean pre-test score of control group was 67.75 and mean post-test score of control group was 78.35. The change of value from Experimental group was very significant. The result of t-count (11.384) was higher than t-table (0.4329). Based on the findings and discussion of the research, the researcher concluced that, Short stories can succesful in improving students’ vocabulary masteryat the Fourth grade students’ of MI Tarbiyatul Banin wal Banat Trucuk Bojonegoro