Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar Proceedings, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social and Islamic Studies (ICSIS) 2021

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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING WHATSAPP MEDIA IN THE TEACHING OF VOCABULARY TO THE SECONDGRADE STUDENT OF SMAN 1 MADAPANGGA
Annisa Shofa Tsuraya, Silaturahmi Silaturahmi

Last modified: 2022-09-29

Abstract


This research aims at finding out whether there is a significant difference or not on the students’ vocabulary mastery through WhatsApp media and their response in implementing WhatsApp media to the second-grade student of SMAN 1 Madapangga. The method of this research was a pre-experimental research with one-group pretestposttest design. The population of this research was the second-grade student of SMAN 1 Madapangga. The total population were 184 students while the sample of this research were 30 students taken by applying simple random sampling technique. For the instrument, it used test (pre-test and post-test) and questionnare.The collected data was analized using scoring classification; mean score and t-test. The mean score of pre-test was 68.90 with standar deviation 14.45 while the mean score of post-test was 82.33 with standar deviation 5.97. Then the value of t-test was bigger than t-table (3.821>2.100). While for Students’ response in implementing WhatsApp media, it showed that most of them felt that WhatsApp media gave good impact to them such as they felt fun and more actively involved in learning vocabulary through WhatsApp media. Based on the results above, the researcher concludes that WhatsApp media can improve students’ vocabulary mastery and it enhances students’ enthusiasm during learning vocabulary process to the second-grade student of SMAN 1 Madapangga.

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