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V STUDENTS VOCABULARY MASTERY USING ANTONYMS AND SYNONYMS AT SD NEGERI 116254 RANTO JIOR

This study is talking about Improving V Grade Students Vocabulary mastery using Antonyms and Synonyms at SD Negeri 116254 Ranto jior. Most of the students store less vocabulary so they were not able to communicate english practically even in simple utterance. This study aims at SD Negeri 116254 Ranto jior, the objective of this study is to find out whether students vocabulary mastery improved if it will de using antonyms and synonyms. To solve the problem, the writer conduted classrom action research by implementing antonym and synonym. The writer applied two cycles, in each cycles consists of third meeting in this research. The participant of this study was one class consists of 46 students. The instrument for collecting data the research used pre test, obsrvation and pos test. Based on the research result, showed the progressive mean of the students, the firs pre tes was 15, 98 cycle I was 17,74 and cycle II was 67, 31 so, the mean in three cycles was higher than the first cycle. The data from observation sheet indicated that the students got improvement. It indicated that the application of antonym and synonym techniques improve students vocabulary mastery. In conclusion, antonym and synonym coud improve students vocabulary mastery at SD Negeri 116254 Ranto jior, hopefully, the research result could be positive input other researchers and teachers to conduct the research, particularly on english issue.