Increasing Students' Vocabulary Through ESA Method

Abstract

The goals of this study were to see if the ESA method can improve students' vocabulary in the eighth year of SMP Negeri 10 Buton Tengah, and if the students in the eighth year of SMP Negeri 10 Buton Tengah can improve their vocabulary in the eighth year of SMP Negeri 10 Buton tengah are interested in learning vocabulary through ESA method or not. This study used two types of variables: independent and dependent variables. The ESA method was the The vocabulary of the students served as an independent variable, and the vocabulary of the students served as a dependent variable. The students' vocabulary achievement was the focus in this case. The VIII1 class, which had 19 students, served as the study's sample. The instruments that were used to collect the data in this research were essay test (pretest and posttest) and questionnaire. The technique used in analyzing the data about the students’ vocabulary achievement at the eighth year of SMP Negeri 10 Buton Tengah was a percentage analysis. The finding indicated that (1) the use of ESA method applied at the eighth year students of SMP Negeri 10 Buton Tengah had a significant effect on the students’ vocabulary achievement with the mean score of pretest was 57.9 with fairly good classification, and the mean score of posttest was 70.87 with good classification. Furthermore, the difference between the result of pretest and posttest based on the result of t-test was at the significant level (t_-test) was 10.02, and (2) the eighth year students of SMP Negeri 10 Buton tengah  are interested in studying English vocabularies through the use of ESA method; this thing can be shown by the mean score of interest namely 50.2.