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INTRODUCTION
the total number of the words with their meaning and rules for combining
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Many people, who learn English especially for the beginners are
contained. Its massive and relatively fast spread made people shriveled and
from home using makeshift media such as available reading book, laptops,
formal institution, the school also organizes English language learning for
the students. However, during this COVID times, they only studied
the COVID pandemic the teachers use social media as the media in
during the COVID period, the teacher taught vocabulary using a remote
the students’ vocabulary mastery during the COVID times at the Eleventh
Kampar. This research is aimed to fulfill one of the requirements for the
A. Nature of Vocabulary
1. Definition of Vocabulary
pronounce, listen and write correctly. The more they master the vocabulary,
because it appears in all language skills. The vocabulary is the set of words
that make up a language. Before anyone studies English, they must learn the
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words when they speak; they speak words when they read; words in the
face, in writing; they use words and pronunciation; ideally they practice
with (Laufer& Goldstein, 2004) and (Milton, 2009) who stated that English
vocabulary and speaking , listening and writing (Sun & Dang, 2020).
meaning of words, someone will not be able to improve their English skills
master English, because students' ability to speak and understand the subject
speak English, you need to have sufficient vocabulary to express your idea.
master the vocabulary in order to be able to speak using the target language
ideas more effectively and can communicate fluently with other people
language and that no language exists without words. Words are signs or
addition to writing, but also as the main capital for mastering English. as a
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2. Teaching Vocabulary
related to all language learning and is of interest to all four language skills.
following factors:
words. Therefore, the teacher has to select new words that the students can
easily understand.
c. Necessity: When teaching vocabulary, the teacher must choose the words
d. Frequent exposure and repetition: The teacher should practice with many
repetitions so that the students have a good command of the target words.
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They also give students the opportunity to use words when they write or
speak.
present the target words in such a way that the meaning of the target words
f. Situation and Presentation: Teachers tell students they need to use words
appropriately. The use of words depends on the situation in which they are
follows:
The teacher can use real objects and the controller. The teacher can
technique, the teacher can ask students to do something like touch the pen,
b. Visual aids
Visual means something visible. The teacher can use visual aids in
vocabulary.
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c. Verbal explanation.
English and use a vocabulary that the students already know to show the
explaining what it looks like and when people usually use it.
d. Word List
When using the word list technique, the teacher should pay attention to
material and technique for the student, so that the learning goal can be
There are some words in the sentences and the collection of words is
cites in (Asyiah, 2017). Therefore, the synonym is a word that has the
c. Polysemy means words that have two or more related meanings (Tyler
(Haerunnisa, 2017) assumes that there are two or more words with a
adjective; the words used to satisfy the requirements for nouns or pronouns.
4) Adverb; words used to clarify the meaning of verbs, adjectives and other
adverbs. 5) Conjunction; Words that can be used to connect from one word
that can replace the name. 7) Interjection; words that can be inserted into a
effectively and can communicate fluently with other people because, in fact,
decide and govern the vocabulary as a useful and fundamental tool for
words that make up a language that anyone can use to communicate. When
learning four language skills, vocabulary is one of the building blocks that
knowledge of words because they couldn't perform all four skills without
vocabulary. The more they master the vocabulary, the better they practice the
5. Assessing Vocabulary
Table 2.1
Assessing Vocabulary
4 Effective choice of word and word foms, the students are able to choose the
good choice of word, have the large range of vocabulary and they are able to
arrange the good sentence.
3 View misuse of vocabularies and word forms, but not change the meaning,
the students sometime not choose the right vocabulary, and the word forms
are not excellent, but still have the same meaning.
2 Limited range confusing words and word form, the students only had the
common word of vocabulary, still confuse how to share their idea and
arrange the sentences.
1 Very poor knowledge of word, word form, and not understandable, the
students had very poor vocabulary, do not understand how to share their
idea with word of English, misunderstand, and can not arrange the sentence
and say whay they want to say.
B. COVID-19 Times
1. Definition of COVID-19
are the largest group of viruses belonging to the order Nidovirales and the
divided into four genera, the Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta coronaviruses.
RNA genome, and a unique replication strategy. It gets its name from the
humans. It has endangered the global health, economy and social security
As a group, it is not limited to one region located in the organs; but its
target tissues include the nervous system, the immune system, the
"CO" means "crown", "VI" for "virus" and "D" for disease (Elabiyi M,
2020)
distance between the community, stay away from activities in all forms of
(WFH) policy. This policy is an effort applied to the company to solve all the
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work at home. These efforts were aimed at breaking the chain of spread of the
Education also issues policies by firing schools and replaces the process of
teaching and learning activities (KBM) using online learning. When using this
students and teachers, such as materials not being delivered by the teacher and
designed at the beginning of the semester. Students don't have time to learn
There are some research which are relevant to this thesis, such as:
used spelling bee game, and the researcher analyze the student’s
researcher does not use the direct method for teaching student’s
vocabulary mastery.
State Islamic University Jakarta 2010). He states that there are the
student’s vocabulary mastery in general. The other differences are the kind
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in learning English.
C. Theoritical Framework
The students are The students are are The students are able in
able to understand able to understand the the using of the
the vocabulary meaning of the vocabulary
vocabulary
Student’s Vocabulary
Mastery
METHODOLOGY
focuses to the students and teacher behavior and also the interaction between
Then, the researcher observed the learning activities and watched the
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Table 3.1
Time of the Research
No Activities Feb- Mar-21 Apr-21 May-21 Jun-21 Jul-21 Aug-21
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1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
1 Filling √
Title of
the
Research
2 Proposal √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Writing
3 Seminar
Proposal
4 Implement
ation of
the
Research
5 Data
Processing
and
Preparatio
n of
Thesis
6 Thesis
Defence
Data are one of the most important things to solve the problem of
are research contained object of the study and basically are definitely
about object of the study and context. The data used in this study is the
will be combined with the data source of the student’s score from the
The source of data in the research is the subject from which the
data that collected for the purpose of research (Arikunto, 2010) cites in
that data source is all of the information or subjects that collected and
chosen for the study.The data source in this research was the Eleventh
research.
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score from the teacher. The score taken by the research atgrade Eleventh
score will be the data which the result of the questionnaire used in this
2. Questionnaire
questionnaire was technique of data colleting that was done by give the
and spread over the same area large. The questionnaire can be in the
Table 3. 2
Likert Scale
Statement SA A U D SD
Positive 5 4 3 2 1
Negative 1 2 3 4 5
F
P= x 100 %
N
Explanation:
P = Percentage
(Sudjono, 2008)
1. The Validity
2. Reability
different person.
is measuring two different versions of the same item within the same
researcher used SPSS 21 Program to find out whether the test was
reliable or not.
CHAPTER IV
information about the students’ vocabulary mastery during the Covid times
instruments that have been used by the researcher. The researcher used a
were the subject. In this case, the researcher uses a Likert scale with a rating
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a. Indicator 1
The indicators of this result were gotten from the questionnaire of the
2 Agree 19 63,33%
3 Disagree 3 10%
4 Strongly Disagree 0 0%
Total 30 100%
Table 4.1 shows that eight students strongly are able to understandthe
synonym of the vocabularies in the text. The students who agree is nineteen
students. The students who choose agree means that most of them is
understand the synonym of the vocabularies they find from the text, but
three students said disagree, it means three of the total students do not
b. Indicator 2
result were gotten from the questionnaire. The result of indicator 2 of the
Table 4.2 I understand the antonym from the vocabularies in the text
2 Agree 21 70%
3 Disagree 1 3,33%
4 Strongly Disagree 0 0%
Total 30 100%
Table 4.2 shows that twenty one students are able to understandthe
antonym from the vocabularies in the text. Meanwhile there was one
student said disagree, and none of the students said strongly disagree. It
shows that only one student from the total students do not understand the
anthonym from the text and most of the students at XI grade students at
c. Indicator 3
Kampar which has 30 students. The indicators of this result were gotten
Table 4.3 I can use the variation of the vocabularies over than two
2 Agree 18 60%
3 Disagree 3 10%
4 Strongly Disagree 0 0%
Total 30 100%
Table 4.3 shows that there are eightteen students said agree that
they can use the variation of the vocabularies over than two meanings in
vocabularies over than two meanings in the sentences. From the total
able to use the variation of the vocabularies over than two meanings in the
sentences and some students need to learn more about this kind of
vocabularies.
d. Indicator 4
result were gotten from the questionnaire. The result of indicator 4 of the
Table 4.4 I can use the vocabularies with the same spelling but different
2 Agree 18 60%
3 Disagree 3 10%
4 Strongly Disagree 0 0%
Total 30 100%
Table 4.4 shows that there are eightteen students said agree that
they can use the vocabularies with the same spelling but different meaning
of the text. Only three student said disagree and none of the students said
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strongly disagree. It means from the total students, most of the students at
XI grade students at MAN 2 Kampar are able to use the vocabularies with
the same spelling but different meaning of the text and only three students
still do not understand and need to learn more in using the vocabularies
e. Indicator 5
The indicators of this result were gotten from the questionnaire of the
2 Agree 20 66,66%
3 Disagree 2 6,66%
4 Strongly Disagree 0 0%
Total 30 100%
Table 4.5 shows that from the total students of XI grade student of
MAN 2 Kampar, there was only two students still do not undersand the
vocabularies of noun from the text. Twenty students said are able to
MAN 2 Kampar are able to understand the vocabularies of noun from the
f. Indicator 6
of this result were gotten from the questionnaire. The result of indicator 6
Table 4.6 I understand the using of noun vocabularies from the text
2 Agree 15 50%
3 Disagree 4 13,33%
4 Strongly Disagree 0 0%
Total 30 100%
Table 4.6 shows that there were fiveteen students said are able to
were 4 students said disagree and none of the students said strongly
disgaree. The students who choose agree means that they understand the
using of noun vocabularies from the text. It means from the total students,
understand the using of noun vocabularies from the text and only three
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students still do not understand and need to learn more the use of noun
g. Indicator 7
mastery were gotten from XI grade students of MAN 2 Kampar which has
mastery as follows:
2 Agree 16 53,33%
3 Disagree 3 10%
4 Strongly Disagree 0 0%
Total 30 100%
Table 4.7 shows that eleven students said strongly are able to
understandthe verb vocabularies in the text. The students who said agree
were sixteen students. Only three students said disagree, and none of the
students said strongly disagree. The students said agree means that they
understand the verb vocabularies in the text. The students disagree means
that they are not able to recognize and undertand the vocabulary of verb
from text. It shows that the most of students at XI grade students at MAN
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2 Kampar are able to understandthe verb vocabularies in the text and only
h. Indicator 8
result were gotten from the questionnaire. The result of indicator 8 of the
2 Agree 19 63,33%
3 Disagree 1 3,33%
4 Strongly Disagree 0 0%
Total 30 100%
Table 4.8 shows that ten students said strongly agree and nineteen
students said are able to understandthe using of verb in the text. There was
only one student said disagree and none of the student said strongly
disagree. The students said agree means that they understand the using of
verb in the text. The students disagree means that they are not able to
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recognize and understand the using of verb in the text. It shows that the
i. Indicator 9
2 Agree 21 70%
3 Disagree 6 20%
4 Strongly Disagree 0 0%
Total 30 100%
Table 4.9 shows that there were twenty one students said agree that
disagree were six students and none of the students said strongly disagree.
The students who agree means that they understand the vocabularies of
adverb in text. The students disagree means that they are not able to
are able to understandthe adverb vocabularies in the text and there were
j. Indicator 10
of this result were gotten from the questionnaire. The result of indicator 10
2 Agree 19 63,33%
3 Disagree 5 16,66%
4 Strongly Disagree 0 0%
Total 30 100%
Table 4.10 shows that there were six students strongly are able to
said agree. Meanwhile there were five students said disagree, and none of
the students strongly disagree. The students who agree means that they are
disagree means that they are not able to recognize and understand the
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using of vocabularies of adverb in text. The table shows that the most of
k. Indicator 11
result were gotten from the questionnaire. The result of indicator 11 of the
2 Agree 20 66,66%
3 Disagree 6 20%
4 Strongly Disagree 0 0%
Total 30 100%
Table 4.11 shows that there were four students strongly are able to
were twenty students said agree. Meanwhile there were six students said
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disagree, and none of the students strongly disagree. The students who
conjuction. The students whodisagree means that they are not able to
l. Indicator 12
2 Agree 17 56,66%
3 Disagree 6 20%
4 Strongly Disagree 0 0%
Total 30 100%
Table 4.12 shows that from the total students of XI grade student
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means they still do not understand the using of conjunction of the text.
There were seventeen students said agree, and seven students said strongly
agree. The students who agree means that they are able to understand
understand the using of conjunction of the text. It show that the majority of
the XI grade students of MAN 2 Kampar are able to understand the using
m. Indicator 13
of this result were gotten from the questionnaire. The result of indicator 13
2 Agree 17 56,66%
3 Disagree 3 10%
4 Strongly Disagree 0 0%
Total 30 100%
Table 4.13 shows that there were seventeen students said are able
students said disagree. It means some students still do not understand the
vocabularies of pronoun in the text. From the total students, most of the
vocabularies of pronoun in the text and some students need to learn more
n. Indicator 14
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Kampar which has 30 students. The indicators of this result were gotten
2 Agree 13 43,44%
3 Disagree 6 20%
4 Strongly Disagree 0 0%
Total 30 100%
students (43,44%) said agree, 6 student (20%) said disagree, and 0 student
(0%) said strongly disagree. So, we can conclude that most students at XI
Table 4.14 shows that there were eleven students strongly are able
students said agree. Meanwhile there were six students said disagree, and
none of the students strongly disagree. The students who agree means that
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they are able to understand the using of pronoun of the text. The students
whodisagree means that they are not able to recognize and understand the
using of pronoun of the text. From the total students at XI grade students
Data
researcher found that the total score of the student’s vocabulary was 2440.
The highest score was 89. The lowest score of the students vocabulary
score was 35. There was a gap between the highest and the lowest score.
After analyzing the student’s score, the researcher found that the
median of score was 85. The mean score of the student’s vocabulary score
was 81,33. That score means that the students of XI grade students at
vocabularies in English.
following:
Kampar are able to use the vocabularies with the same spelling but
different meaning of the text and only three students still do not
given.
noun vocabularies from the text and only three students still do not
adverb vocabularies.
B. Discussion
The results of the research shows that most of the students at the XI
grade of MAN 2 Kampar are able to mastery the vocabulary in Covid times.
linguistics part of speech. From the result, the researcher got that the
students are able to understand the noun of the text. Most of the students
agree that they are able to understand noun vocabularies from the text. The
same result also shows that the students also understand the others kind of
The results of research indicate that the majority of the students agree
that they are able to recognize and understand the synonym, anthonym, and
the using of anthonym and synonym vocabularies from the text. Most of the
variation of the vocabularies over than two meanings in the sentences and
only some students need to learn more about this kind of vocabularies.
Based on the research finding above, the researcher found that from
the total students, The majority of the students at XI grade students at MAN
2 Kampar are able to use the vocabularies with the same spelling but
different meaning of the text and only three students still do not understand
and need to learn more in using the vocabularies with the same spelling but
the researcher found that the mean score of the student’s vocabulary score
was 81,33 and the median score was 85. According to the result of research
finding above, it is known that the students are able to master the linguistic
part of speech, especially about noun, verb, pronoun, etc. The students also
A. Conclusion
mastery vocabulary in Covid times. From the data that has been collected
from the questionnaire and the teacher’s data, the researcher have analyzed
and described that the student are able to mastery the vocabulary especialy
about the linguistics part of speech and the using of the vocabularies in the
text. Furthermore, the results of the questionnaire shows good results. This
B. Suggestion
research above, the researcher would like to give some suggestions are
students should learn more about vocabulary especially in the pronoun and
and the adverb in order to develop and improve their abilities in English.
The students must always practice their English vocabulary in their daily
activities. The students must have motivation in learning English and never
as possible. The researcher also hoping that there will be a special time for
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1 Student 1 88
2 Student 2 87
3 Student 3 87
4 Student 4 85
5 Student 5 86
6 Student 6 86
7 Student 7 89
8 Student 8 80
9 Student 9 45
10 Student 10 85
11 Student 11 84
12 Student 12 82
13 Student 13 80
14 Student 14 82
15 Student 15 84
16 Student 16 84
17 Student 17 86
18 Student 18 56
19 Student 19 87
20 Student 20 87
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21 Student 21 88
22 Student 22 89
23 Student 23 84
24 Student 24 85
25 Student 25 35
26 Student 26 85
27 Student 27 85
28 Student 28 84
29 Student 29 88
30 Student 30 87
Total 2440
Mean 81,33
Median 85