Improving Students’ Vocabulary Mastery Using Song and Pictures for Kindergarten Students

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to improve students’ vocabulary mastery through songs and pictures media. This research was a classroom action research conducted in Group A TKIT Nurussyifa, Ponorogo. In this study, the researcher applied 2 research cycles. Each cycle consisted of four steps; planning, acting, observing and reflecting. Researchers used three techniques to collect data, namely: observation, interview and test. The data were classified in the form of qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative data obtained from observations and interviews. While quantitative data obtained through test. To analyze qualitative data, the researcher applied an interactive model consisting of the following steps: (1) reduction, (2) presentation, and (3) verification. Quantitative data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The results of the study in each cycle showed that there was an increasing in the number of students who get scores above the passing grade, from 8 students in cycle 1 to 14 students in cycle 2. The percentage of success there was an increase from 59.44% in cycle 1 to 80.56% in cycle 2. This result also showed that song and picture media were effective to increas students’ vocabulary mastery at the early childhood education level, especially in group A of TKIT Nurussyifa, Ponorogo.