The Effect of Picture Storybook on Students’ Vocabulary and Motivation in Writing Narrative Text

Abstract

The objectives of this study are to investigate the effect of picture storybook on students’ vocabulary and students’ motivation in responding the media of picture storybook. The research methodology was quasiexperimental design. The subject of this study was the students of class VIII A and VII B in SMPN 01 Doro, Pekalongan in the Academy Year 2019/2020. The sample was two classes consisting of 30 students both of
experiment and control clas. I used learning media of picture storybook and textbook in control class. The data in this study were collected through pre-test, post-test and questionnaire. From the data analysis, it was obtained that sig. value (2-tailed) of 0,000 <0.05, it means that Ho is accepted because of the Sig. higher than  . that there are differences in the average of student learning outcomes for the pre-test experimental class with the experimental class post-test which gained a significant increase as much 19.16 that was from 54.16 to 72.83.
Based on the questionnaire students are motivated learning using picture storybooks at it can improve their English vocabulary (73.8%). As a final remark, it is expected that by using picture storybook in learning vocabulary could improve students’ vocabulary mastery and learning motivation.

Keywords: Vocabulary, motivation, picture storybook