Abstract :
Students’ mastery of language depends upon the quantity of their vocabulary.
However, elementary school students still have weakness in vocabulary such as
lack of vocabulary and lack of understanding of the meaning. One way to
overcome this problem is through flashcard, because flashcard encourages
students to expand their vocabularies in mastering pronunciation and the meaning
of the word.
The objective of this research was to find out whether flashcard technique can
increase students’ vocabulary or not. Class V B of the fifth year of Madrasah
Ibtidaiyah Mathla’ul Anwar SG Bandar Lampung is used as sample of this
research and to collect the data the researcher used one group pretest posttest
design.
The posttest score showed that 30 students (out of 37) or (81.01%) got score
above 65 and only 7 (18.92%)students got score less than 65. It means that the
students’ vocabulary achievement was satisfactory. It could be seen from the
difference between pretest and posttest score. The lowest score improved from 20
to 60 and the highest score improved from 88 to 100. The numbers of students
scored less than 65 in pretest are 29 (78.38%) but in the posttest only 7 students
scored less than 65 (18.92%).
The improvement shows that the learning process through flashcard technique
increased students’ vocabulary achievement. It is supported by the t-test result,
t-ratio was higher than t-table; the result was 11.052>2.14. So, it can be concluded
that there is significant development in the application of flashcard toward
students’ vocabulary achievement. Since flashcard is time consuming, teachers
should be able to manage the teaching learning process well.