The Effect of Using Webtoon Application on Students’ Vocabulary Achievement at the Second Grade of SMP Negeri 3 Raha

Abstract

This study is conducted to investigate whether there is any significant effect of teaching vocabulary through Webtoon application on students’ vocabulary achievement. The design of this study was quasi experimental design that consisted of two groups (experimental class and control class). The researcher took the sample by using purposive sampling established that class VIII2 which had 25 students belong to the experimental class and class VIII1 which had 25 students belong to the control class. The instrument used vocabulary tests in the form of multiple choice, complete sentence and matching to collect the data. The test consisted of 50 numbers. The researcher collected the data by giving treatment which the researcher conducted teaching and learning process by using Webtoon application and giving post-test to see the students’ vocabulary achievement after being taught by using Webtoon application. The researcher used Independent Sample T-test to analyze the data. The result shows that the students’ mean score for the post-test in experimental class is 79.56 and the mean score in control class is 65.88. While the result of independent sample t-test, shows that the value of Sig (2-tailed) is 0.001 in the experimental class and 0.002 in control class which is less than the alpha value (0.05). This can be concluded that there is a significant effect of teaching vocabulary through Webtoon application on students’ vocabulary achievement.