Increasing the Students’ Vocabulary Mastery by Using Frontloading Strategy

Abstract

In learning languages English, frontloading strategy believed can to help the students to increasing the students’ vocabulary mastery. The research is aims to see how the strategy of frontloading able to increasing vocabulary   mastery at the same time adds students’ interest, saw the participation and response of the students in the use of frontloading strategy. This research used a qualitative approach with a classroom action research design and involves 40 SMK students. The research is done using 3 cycles, each cycle consist of four stages namely planning , acting, observing and reflecting. The data was obtained by using observation, test and interviews. The results of this research indicate that the frontloading strategy can help increasing the students' vocabulary mastery. It can be seen from the result average of posttest of each cycle that increase. The result average of cycle 1 = 66.87, cycle 2 = 75.62 and cycle 3 = 80.25. Besides that the use of frontloading strategy it also can add to the power attractiveness of the students in learning the language of English. Participation of students in using the strategy is also increasing in learning the language of English. The students also gave a positive response to the use of frontloading strategy in vocabulary mastering. Teachers can integrate that strategy frontloading strategy as an alternative strategy in learning process both in online class as well as offline class.