INCREASING THE STUDENTS VOCABULARY BY USING VISUAL ARTWORK FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL AT SMP YP-PGRI 4 MAKASSAR

Abstract

This research aims to determine whether visual artworks can increase students' vocabulary mastery. It was a pre-experimental design with one group pre-test post-test and conducted on the seventh-grade students of SMP YP-PGRI 4 Makassar. The seventh-grade students were taken as the sample by using the purposive sampling technique. The results showed a significant difference between the mean score of the pre-test was 60,33, and the mean of the post-test score was 74. The t-test result is higher than the t-table. It proves that H1 is accepted and H0 is rejected. Based on the study results, it can be concluded that visual artworks can improve the vocabulary of seventh-grade students at SMP YP-PGRI 4 Makassar.