THE EFFECT OF SHORT STORY IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY

The title of this research was The Effect of short story in improving students’
vocabulary mastery a study at the second year students of SMPN 7 Bengkulu. The
objective of this research was to find out the differences in students score and whether the
students interest was improved or not, after being conducted a treatment by uses short
story and handbook. The instrument was a vocabulary test. The result from short story
was satisfying. The data obtained from the pre-test and the post –test score were analyzed
by using the t-calculation. From the pre-test result, the t count was smaller than the t –
table (0.629 < 2.021). thus it meant that trere was no sinificant difference between the
two groups. The post – test result showed that t count was bigger than the t-table (2.82 >
2.021). Thus, the alternative hypothesis (H1) was acceted and the null hypothesis (Ho)
was rejected. In other words, there was a significant difference between the mean score in
the pre-test and the mean score in the post-test. It can be concluded that the treatment of
short story technique was effective in improving students’ vocabulary mastery.