Improving Students’ Vocabulary Mastery In English For Hotel By Using Integrated Approach At Grade Ten SMK Swasta Imelda

Abstract

The research that has been done is entitled “Improving Students’ Vocabulary Mastery in English for Hotel by Using Intergrated Approach at Grade Ten SMK Swasta Imelda”. Acquiring a rich vocabulary is he one of the biggest challenges in learning a second language. According to Hatch and Brown (1995, p.1) vocabulary is a list or set of words for a particular language or a list or set of word that individual speakers of language might use. This study is aimed to get empirical evidence about improving student’s vocabulary mastery in english for hotel by using intergrated approach at Grade ten SMK swasta Imelda. The research method used in this research was Classroom Action Research (CAR). It was conducted to find out the improvement in students' writing skills. Improving students’ vocabulary mastery in learning English by using terminology for hotel at SMK Swasta Pariwisata Imelda Medan , obtained a comparison of students’ vocabulary mastery in pre-cycle , first cycle, and second cycle activities. Based on the research that the researcher has done previously, it can be concluded that the researcher obtained qualitative data and quantitative data, the results showed an increase in students’ vocabulary mastery by using terminology for hotel, there were all students those who passed the KKM (75%). These results come from the data in the pre-cycle, first cycle, and second cycle. In the pre cycle of the pre-test, the total
mean score is 42,87 it means that students mastery of English vocabulary is very low and can be said poor. The first cycle, the total mean score is 65,76 it means that the students’ vocabulary mastery was better than the previous pre-cycle was carried out at the beginning of the meeting. The second cycle the total mean score is 83,44 it means the students’ mastery ability in English shows improvement. This can be seen from the results from the pre-cycle, first-cycle, and the second-cycle.