Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Abstract farizawati, 2015. the use of storytelling technique in teaching vocabulary to young learners. (an experimental study at sdn 1 peukan pidie, sigli). thesis, graduate program in english language education, syiah kuala university, darussalam, banda aceh). advisor : (1) abdul gani asyik, m.a, ph.d (2) abdul manan, m.sc., m.a, ph.d key words : storytelling, vocabulary, young learners. the objective of this study is to investigate the effect of using storytelling technique in teaching vocabulary for fifth grade students of secondary school of sdn 1 peukan pidie, sigli. an experimental design was used in this study and the data were collected through a test as the instrument. the population of this study was all the students of sdn 1 peukan pidie, sigli and two classes were taken as the sample. these classes were classified into the experimental and the control class. the experimental class was taught by using the storytelling technique, while the control class was taught by memorizing words. the pre-test and the post-test were used in collecting the data. the collected data were then analyzed by microsoft excel. the research finding showed that the mean score of the post-test of the experimental class was higher than that of the control class (77,1 > 65,1). furthermore, the result of t-test of the experimental class was higher than that of t-test of the control class (10,98 > 7,45). these data indicated that the students taught by using storytelling technique achieved better score than those taught by using memorizing words. hence, the alternative hypothesis is accepted and null hypothesis is rejected