THE USE OF QUIZLET AS AN ONLINE TOOL TO IMPROVE VOCABULARY MASTERY

Abstract

This action research was aimed to improve the seventh grade students’ vocabulary mastery through the use of Quizlet. The study was conducted in two cycles and two meetings for each cycle from April 2018 to May 2018. A cyclical process proposed by Kemmis and McTaggart (1998, cited in Burns, 2010) was employed to conduct the research. The steps included planning, action and observation, and reflection. The research participants were the English teacher as the collaborator and 32 seventh grade students of SMP N Cahaya (pseudonym). Furthermore, the researcher decided to divide the actions into three main sections: pre-Quizlet-based activities, Quizlet-based activities, and post-based activities. The series of actions could give the students interesting media to learn the vocabulary, memorizing the core vocabulary which was taught in the lesson, and express their opinion in form of a written text. The result of pre-test and post-test also revealed an improvement in which the pre-test mean scores was 74.8 and the post-test mean scores was 93.3.

Keywords: Action research, vocabulary mastery, online tool, Quizlet