281-289 THE USE OF YOUTUBE MEDIA IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY THROUGH ONLINE LEARNING

Abstract

Vocabulary takes an important aspect in learning foreign language, so it cannot be separated. Since the significance of vocabulary is a primary concern, the teachers need to give another interesting educational media which is integrated in ICT such as YouTube.  The objectives of this research are to find out and to describe the use of YouTube media in improving students’ vocabulary through online learning for junior high school students. The research method was quantitative by using a pre-experimental research design. In this research, the population was the seventh grade students at SMP Islam Chairiyah Mansuriyah. The sample of the research was two classes, but they gathered into one class consisting of 84 students which were finally selected as 17 students as a sample of this research. The data collected by using vocabulary test in a form of multiple choices. The researcher gave the pre-test in the first meeting, and then gave the post-test in the second meeting to know the students’ progress. From the data analysis, the researcher used SPSS to compute the data. Therefore, the result showed that the significant value was 0.21 > É‘ = 0.05 which means that Ha is accepted, and H₀ is rejected. It can be concluded that there is significant result in improving students’ vocabulary by using YouTube media for junior high school students.