ABSTRACT
THE EFFECT OF MNEMONIC STRATEGIES ON STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT AT THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 2 RAHA

WA ODE RATNASARI
A1D214050

Vocabulary is one of the vital aspects in learning a language. Most of the students feel difficult in learning a language because students have little vocabulary. It caused by students are easy forgetting new words they have learned. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate whether there was any significant effect of using Mnemonic strategies on students’ vocabulary achievements at the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Raha. This research used quasi experimental design with population was all seventh grade students at SMP Negeri 2 Raha in academic year 2017/2018. The samples of this research were class VII11 as the experimental group and VII10 as control group. The experimental group consisted of 31 students and control group consisted of 32 students. The research instrument was 40 questions of vocabulary test. To collect the data, the researcher gave pre-test, taught by using Mnemonic strategies, and giving post-test. There were four techniques that applied in learning process were rhyme, keyword, visualization, and narrative chain. The result showed that students’ mean score in experimental group were 53.54 at pre-test and 74.71 at post-test, while students’ mean score in control group were 57.27 in pre-test and 68.75 in post-test. As the result, the mean score of post-test in experimental group was higher than in control group. Based on the calculation of T-test, it showed that the score of tcount = 5.828 was higher than ttable = 2.00 and the pvalue = 0.000 was lower than = 0.05. Therefore, the null hypothesis was rejected and H1 was accepted. This can be concluded that there was a significant effect of using mnemonic strategies on students’ vocabulary achievement at the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Raha.

Keywords: Mnemonic strategies, vocabulary achievement.