The Implementation of Memrise in Improving English Vocabulary Mastery

Abstract

Vocabulary has a big role in learning English, because the understanding of English vocabulary affects to the other skills. unfortunately, the lack of English vocabulary is often founded in Indonesian students, and it is a serious problem. The researcher found the problems in an Islamic Senior High School in Majalengka west Java. The first problem is most of students were lack of vocabulary, and the second problem is the limited of technology in learning English language. Research methodology in this research was qualitative method with Classroom Action Research as data collection. The instruments of the research were test, observation sheet, and questionnaire. The research questions were; How does the teacher implement MEMRISE in teaching vocabulary? What is the students’ perception of their experiences before using MEMRISE and after using MEMRISE, and what is the result of teaching English vocabulary after using MEMRISE? The aims of The Study were to Investigate the teacher in the implementation of MEMRISE in teaching English vocabulary, to investigate the students' improvement of English vocabulary after using MEMRISE in cycle I, to investigate the students' improvement of English vocabulary after using MEMRISE in cycle II, to investigate the students’ perception of their experiences before and after using MEMRISE. This research used qualitative method through Classroom Action Research as data collection. In this research the researcher used purposive sampling, and the sample is a class of x IPS 2 that consists of 18 students. In this research the researcher as a teacher. The result show in the pre-test the mean score is 54,06, in the post-test 1 the mean score is 72,06, in the post-test 2 the mean score of pre-test is 52,048, the mean score of post-test 1 was 69,43, and the mean score of post-test 2 was 80,86. The conclusion was there was improvement of students’ vocabulary score through MEMRISE application.