IMPROVING THE VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT BY USING STORY SYSTEM

Keywords:
Improving, Achievement, story system, and VocabularyAbstract
The main objective of this research was to find out whether using the Story System can improve students’ vocabulary in the tenth grade of SMA Ar-Rahim Pontianak. This research used a pre-experimental design with 160 students of SMA Ar-Rahim Pontianak. This research used 31 students as a sample a random sampling technique and used multiple choice and essay as the instruments of research. The result showed the score on – the test 62.83 was higher than the mean score on the – test 39.48 and the t-test value was greater than the–table (17.55 > 2.042) It means that the Story System is one of a good technique in teaching vocabulary because it is prove using story system was effective to improve students’ vocabulary.
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