Abstract :
Vocabulary is the element that links the four language skills; listening, speaking,
reading and writing all together. Tarigan (1986:2) states that the quality of one’s
language proficiency depends on the quality and the quantity of his knowledge of
vocabulary. The richer one’s vocabulary, the better his language proficiency will
be. Therefore, English teachers should be able to find their best way to teach
vocabulary.
This study was conducted to find out whether there was a significant difference of
vocabulary achievement of students who were taught through audio lingual
method and those taught through total physical response. In doing so, the
researcher used intact group pretest-posttest design suggested by Hatch and
Farhady (1982) which deal with two classes. Two classes used in this research
were class 7A as experimental class 1 which was taught through total physical
response and class 7C as experimental class 2 which was taught using audio
lingual method. These two classes were taken from first grade of SMPN 22
Bandar Lampung, academic year 2010/2011.
The result of the research shows that there is a significant difference of vocabulary
achievement of students taught through word mapping and taught through
memorizing game technique. The hypothesis test shows the value of two tail
significance was ï¡ = 0.000 while the condition to accept the hypothesis was ï¡
lower than 0.05. In addition, total physical response gave result of students’
vocabulary achievement better than audio lingual method. It can be seen from the
difference of the total gain score of the pretest and posttest. Total physical
response gain score was 542 while audio lingual method total gain score was 321
in the increase of vocabulary achievement.