THESIS REVIEW

BY :

NUR WAHIDA PUTRI

(182 0300 090)

ENGLISH EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMEN

TARBIYAN AND TEACHER TRAINING FACULTY
THE STATE INSTITUT ISLAMIC OF RELIGION PADANGSIDIMPUAN
2021/2022
 Thesis Review

1. Tittle
The Effectiveness Of Using Short Stories On Students Vocabulary Mastery
2. Formulation Of Problem
1) How is the students‟ vocabularies mastery at the first grade of MAN 2 Cilegon?
2) How is the short stories applied in teaching vocabulary?
3) How is the effect of short stories on student‟s vocabulary mastery?
3. Research Metodh
1) Place and Time of Research
This research would be conducted in MAN 2 CILEGON it is located on Jl.
Puskesmas, Bujanggadung,kec.Grogol,kel.Rawaarum km.12 Cilegon Banten. The
time for this research is about one month; it started on Agustus 2018.
2) Kinds of Research
Method of this research is used experimental method. The researcher chooses
an experimental research because the researcher wants to know the effectiveness
of using short stories on student‟s vocabulary mastery.
3) Population and Sample
The population of this research is students of MAN 2 CILEGON. The total
population is 90 students. The sample of this research is eleventh grade students
which consists of 30 students from experiment class X IPS A and 30 students
from control class X IPS B.
4. Research Instrument
The instrument for treatment in this research is written questions that the
researcher will give to the students as the exercises during teaching learning process
whether in experiment class or control class. There will be one recount text and it
consists of ten questions related to the text and the questions will show the aspects of
reading comprehension, such as main idea, cohesive, vocabulary and grammar.
5. Data Collection and Data Analysis
1) Data Collection
For collecting the data in this research, the researcher gives the written test.
The written test will be used to find out the result of students‟ reading
comprehension achievement in descriptive text material. There are some
procedures that will be used to collect the data in this research as follows, pre-
 test, treatment and post-test.
2) Data Analysis
To analyze the data collected from the instrument of research that is pre-test
and post-test, the researcher takes steps as follow:
 Quantification of the data
 Choose the sample of the data source
 Determining mean of pre-test score
 Making table of frequency distribution of post-test result
 Determining mean of post-test score
 Measuring last calculation with t-test
6. Research Procedure
1) Preparation
As preparation, the researcher does some procedures, such as preparing a
research proposal until the proposal is accepted, then preparing the needed
permission for conducting the research, doing the observation in the research field
and organizing the research instrument.
2) Implementation
After some preparations, the researcher begin to conduct the research. It is
started by conducting the pre-test, then the researcher conduct the teaching and
learning process with the recount text material by using short stories on students
vocabulary mastery for experiment class and control class with using it, and the
researcher conduct the post-test after the treatments have been given. The next
step is analyzing and interpreting the data collected from pre-test and post-test,
then draw the interpretation based on the result of the data collected analysis and
reporting the conclusion of the result and propose some suggestions that will
contribute for the further study, the last is writing down into a paper as a research
report.
7. Conclution
Based on the research about”The effectiveness of Using Short Stories on
student‟s „ Vocabulary Mastery An Experimental Research at The Tenth Grade of
MAN 2 CILEGON, The writer conclude that:
1) Students‟ vocabulary mastery is still less. It can be seen from the score of pre-test
that many students get bed score. But, the students can improve their vocabulary
 mastery after they got the treatment of short story method. They score of post-test
show increasing , most of students get better score.
2) The application of short stories in teaching vocabulary is quiet interesting. As
explained above, short stories have six steps in teaching vocabulary in order to
improve student‟s vocabulary. The first step that must be applied is word
mastery, next write definition and context clues, etc until the last step, applying
word graphic or word map.
3) To describe the effectiveness of teaching vocabulary by using short stories to
build up student‟s vocabulary is significant. According to the data, the value of to
observation is higher than ttable 1.99,6.96.2.64,in degree of significant 5 % and 1
%. It means that short stories can build up student‟s vocabulary.
 Thesis Summary

INTRODUCTION
A. Background of Study
Vocabulary is one of the essential linguistic elements in studying English.
Without a significant amount of vocabulary, everyone will have a hard time speaking,
reading, listening and writing. In other words, vocabulary is the first master of a
learning language, especially English language learners. This means that learning
vocabulary is very important, especially for high school students. They must master
English vocabulary and its grammatical rules in order to communicate with others.
Vocabulary also plays a very important role in the main language skills of
listening, speaking, reading and writing. By acquiring the necessary knowledge of
vocabulary, foreign language learners can become effective speakers, listeners,
readers and writers. Lack of vocabulary, on the other hand, has a major impact on
these four language skills. Therefore, teaching and learning vocabulary requires
special attention from both teachers and learners.
Vocabulary is an important part of any language learning process. It would be
impossible to learn a language without vocabulary. Harmer claimed that if language
structures are the frame, then it is vocabulary that provides the vital organs and the
fresh. Realizing how important the vocabulary and how difficult the students are to
build up, the English teacher should find out the solutions by creating an efficient and
effective technique in teaching English vocabularies. There are many methods for
teaching vocabulary more easily and in a fun manner. One of them is the use of
stories. According to Edgar's All Short Story, "no longer than one can read in one
sitting." 3 The story is one of the many types of English literature. Among literary
genres, short stories seem to be the best choice to build up vocabulary.
 THEORETICAL FOUNDATION
A. Short Story
1. Definition of Short story
Short stories are one of many types of English literature. Short stories are
horrifying, but they also have important messages about good and evil, and human
motives, making them suitable for classroom use.
There are numerous definitions of short stories, such as general book writing,
especially short stories. "Everyone knows if a short story is a prose story that is
clearly described as" shorter than the novel. " Or, as the first commentator, Edgar
Allan Poe, you can now read in one sit. 7 The term one-time sitting here means
that the story can be read at once without interruption.
2. The Importance Elements of Short Story
According to book written by Mario Klarer, here are the most important
elements in short stories and other fictions:
a Plot
b Character
c Narrative Perspective or Point of View
d Setting
3. The Benefits of using Short Stories
The role of literature in general and storytelling in particular in the classroom
has always been championed because of the various benefits that this use can offer
teachers and students. There are many benefits to using stories in language
teaching, for example, quotes from the Asian Journal of Social and Human
Sciences that stories can be helpful as literature is universal and short stories will
enable the teacher to solve human problems.
Short stories make learning English enjoyable and engaging for learners.
Stories also contribute to basic English learning for vocabulary and grammatical
patterns22. Stories help develop reading skills, which is very important for
building vocabulary. The use of stories also encourages students to try learning in
context.
4. Selecting The Short Stories
The use of short stories (in this case, vocabulary mastery) in English language
instruction should aim to encourage students to use what they have previously
learned. By doing so, the learning process becomes student-centered. However,
 the teacher plays a big role. He/she must choose the appropriate text for use in the
class and should help his/her students to understand the story in the different
activities.
The choice of stories is certainly one of the most important roles of a teacher
in teaching English using short stories. Short story lengths vary greatly, so choose
a short story that is short enough to be tackled during the course of the course.
Shortening the text is important for students because they can see which students
can read, understand and finish something in English. It gives students a sense of
achievement and self-confidence.
Recognizing that the importance of considering these criteria is that the
vocabulary and sentence pattern of the short story being studied must match the
level of the short story being studied and the level of the student. You can
recognize it by doing. Ancient, slang, foreign languages, hints, texts that mimic
local speech, and short stories that include ignorant people and foreigners should
be avoided if the text is intended for intermediate or lower students. Similarly,
very long sentences are difficult for students to understand. Students can't
understand these sentences and words, so they get bored and don't read the work.

B. Explanation of Vocabulary
1. Definition of vocabulary
Vocabulary is an inseparable part of any language learning process.
vocabulary is a list of word or set of words used by, understood by and know by
people.
2. Kinds of Vocabulary
The classification of word of a language depends on the function in
communication. Thombury states that words are classified on functional and
content words. Content words include noun,verb,adjective and adverb. It means,
preposition,conjunction,and interjection,includes to function word.
According to Charter Opinion, study about word meaning include on polysemy,
synonymy, antonymy, homonyms, homophone, and homograph.
3. The importance of Vocabulary
First, the knowledge of vocabulary enables students to establish and achieve
successful communication which is the main goal any foreign language teaching
and learning. Secondly, the knowledge of vocabulary also helps students to
explore the beauty of that language through a great variety of new words. Thirdly,
knowledge of vocabulary laso help students to compare and contrast the foreign
language and the mother tongue.
4. Teaching Vocabulary by Using Short Story
Teaching English vocabulary is an important area that deserves effort and
investigation. Methodists and linguists have recently emphasized and
recommended teaching vocabulary because of its importance in language
teaching. Vocabulary is essential for expressing meaning and using
comprehension (listening and reading) and productivity (speaking and writing)
skills.
Here is the procedure for teaching vocabulary through short stories, according
to Vocabulary – Literature Building Vocabulary Thorough literature:
a Master / Words
The researcher prepare as many as 10 words in each story. The words
are key words from the story. Write down the words sides of the story.
b Write Definition
Ask the students to read the story, afyer that ask them to find out the
meaning of each master words.
c Use Context Clues
Use the master words in another context, such as makes question with
fill in the blanks.
d Use Synonyms and Antonyms
Use Antonym and antonym from each master words.
e Find the Right Meaning
The master words have more than on meaning, so ask the students to
find out the right meaning.
f Words Graphic or Word Map
Ask the students to make word map by using synonym, antonym and
make sentences by using the words.
 RESULT AND DISCUSSCION
A. The Data Description
In this chapter, the researchers explained the data obtained. The subject of this
survey is MAN 2 CILEGON 2017/2018 10th grade class. As we have learned in this
chapter, the author is a sample of 60 students.
The purpose of this research is to find accurate data that matches the title of the
research. Therefore, this study divided the sample into two classes, 30 X IPS B
students in the experimental class and 30 X IPS A students in the control class. The
total number of samples is 60 students.
When teaching vocabulary acquisition, teachers need to find better skills to teach
students vocabulary. Students need vocabulary skills and methods to achieve
vocabulary goals and deepen understanding. This means that students should get
something they are interested in while learning vocabulary.
In order to deepen understanding, teachers need to give students more activities
to arouse their active participation in the course.
After finished the field research, the researcher got the score as follow:
1. The score of pre-test and post-test of Control Class
The students in X IPS 2 Class as control class obtained mean score 56,6 for
pre-test and 68 for post-test.
The result of pre-test in control class is 56,6, while the result of post-test in
control class is 68. It means that the comparison score of pre-test and post-test in
control class is not better than experiment class. It can be seen from the average
score of post-test from control class is smaller than the average score of post-test
from the experiment class. It caused the control class the effectiveness of using
short stories in teaching vocabulary mastery.
2. The score of pre-test and post-test of Experimental Class
The students in X IPA1 Class as experiment class obtained mean score 62 for
pre-test and 80 for post-test.
The result of pre-test and post-test assessment at experimental class, it showed
that the result of experiment class got the well improvement after giving
treatment. It seen from the average score post-test is better than the average score
pre-test, that is 80 > 62. The students improvement score caused by the researcher
used the effect of using short stories on students vocabulary mastery in teaching
vocabulary mastery.
B. The Data Analysis
After getting the data from the post-test score of two classes, then the researcher
analyzed it by using t-test.
The scores of post-test in experiment class was better than the scores of post-test
in control class. It can be seen from the total amount of the scores of post-test in
experiment class was 2.400 and pre-test was 1.860 and the average score of post-test
was 80 and pre-test was 62, while the total amount of the post-test scores in control
class was 2.040 and pre-test was 1.700, and the average score of post-test was 68 and
pre-test was 56,6.
According to the result of statistic calculation, it is obtained that the score of to is
= 6,8 degree of freedom is (5)%. The value of 58 is mentioned in the table about 2.00
(as degree of significant).
To prove the hypothesis, the data obtained from the experimental class in
calculated by using t-test formula with assumption as follow:
1. If tobservation>ttable the alternative hypothesis is accepted. It means there is an
improvement of .using short stories on students‟ vocabulary mastery.

2. If tobservation<ttable the alternative hypothesis is rejected. It means there is no

improvement of using short stories on student‟s vocabulary mastery.

C. The Data Interpretation

the researcher gives conclusion that there is any effect and improvement of using
short story on student‟s vocabulary mastery in teaching vocabulary. It can be seen that
the students get good or better scores using short story on student‟s vocabulary
mastery. Short story used for teaching vocabulary mastery of recount text provide to
several steps to make learning vocabulary easier. The technique had positive effect on
the ability to learning the difficulties of students in vocabulary mastery.