Abstract :
Vocabulary is one of important elements in English. Without vocabulary,
people will be difficult to communicate to others using English. In education, it is
needed to be emphasized that every teacher must realize to use good strategy to
increase the learners? motivation to learn vocabulary mastery.
There are so many ways or strategy teacher can use it, but not all can be
used. Teacher will use strategy that is appropriate with the problem, usually the
problem comes up from the learners. Every problem has different strategies that
can be used. Teacher must be creative to make the learning process more
effective. One of the strategy is make a match strategy. Make a match strategy is
an exciting strategy for the learners who want to learn vocabulary easily. It is done
cooperatively, so the cooperation among learners will increase. The writer is
interested in using make a match strategy to solve problem in SDM 2 Gresik. The
research problem is ?How does ?make a match? strategy improve vocabulary
mastery to the fifth grade learners at SD Muhammadiyah 2 Gresik??
This research design of this study is classroom action research. The
objective of this study is to know how ?make a match? strategy improves
vocabulary mastery. The subject of this study is the fifth grade of SD
Muhammadiyah 2 Gresik. The researcher does the action research in four steps,
they are: planning, acting, observing and reflecting. To collect the data, the
researcher uses some instruments; observation, test, and questinnaire. The
researcher uses triangulation to analysis the data. This study is done in one cycle.
Based on the result of the data analysis, make a match strategy that is
appropriate to be applied in teaching vocabulary. The conclussion was make a
match strategy could help the learners memorize vocabulary easier, it was because
learners saw not only the name but also the picture, so they would remember new
vocabulary. Therefore, make a match strategy could motivate the learners in
learning vocabulary, because there were interactions among them.
It is important that applying make a match needs good time management,
in order the implementation can run well. The teacher should make the learners
understand about the procedure of make a match. Make sure that the learners
engage to the strategy, it can help them easy to catch the material.