Teaching Vocabulary through Story Telling for Young Learners

Abstract

The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of using story telling in teaching vocabulary for fifth grade students at SDN 1 Peukan Pidie, Sigli. An experimental design was used in this study and the data were collected through a test as the instrument. The population of this study was all the students of SDN 1 Peukan Pidie, Sigli and two classes were taken as the sample. These classes were classified into the experimental and the control classes. The experimental class was taught by using story telling, while the control class was taught by memorizing words. The pre-test and the post-test were used in collecting the data. The research finding showed that the mean score of the post-test of the experimental class was higher than that of the control class (77.1>65.1). Furthermore, the result of t-test of the experimental class was higher than that of t-test of the control class (10.98 >7.45). These data indicated that the students taught by using story telling achieved better score than those taught by using memorizing words. Hence, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected.