This research describes about correlative study between teacher’s ways in
teaching using colored pictures and students’ mastery in vocabulary. The problems of
the research are: 1) How is teacher’s ways in teaching by using pictures?. 2) What is
the function of colored pictures in teaching-learning vocabulary process?. and 3) Is
there any correlation of teacher’s ways in teaching using pictures and students’
mastery in vocabulary?.
Population of the research is all students and an English teacher of MTSN 1
Barambai academic year 2013/2014. The sample of the research is 40 students which
taken by using convenience sampling technique.
To collect the data, the writer uses some techniques such as questionnaire,
interview, observation, documentary and written vocabulary test. Then all of the data
that have been collected are processed using quantitative statistic method. The writer
uses r-test to measure the correlation study to get final the result.
The result of the research indicates that the students’ questionnaire of their
interested in teaching-learning process is 3280 and the students’ vocabulary test
is3600. The result of the calculation using r-test is 0.730 with r table at df/db 38 in the
significance standard 5% = 0.320 and also 1% = 0.413. Thus, is r count is higher than
r table. It means that Ha (Alternative Hypothesis) is accepted and Ho (Zero
Hypothesis) is rejected. By the result, there is positive and significant correlation
between Teacher’s teaching ways using colored pictures and students’ mastery in
vocabulary.
Students’ mastery in vocabulary is 0.730 which in strong category.