Implementing Controlled Composition to Improve Vocabulary Mastery of EFL Students
Abstract: The purposes of this
study was to know how (1) Controlled compositionteaching techniques implemented
by the English teacher at SDN 027Samarinda to improve vocabulary mastery, and
(2) Controlled composition teaching techniques improves vocabulary mastery of
the sixth grade students of SDN 027 Samarinda. This research used a Classroom
Action Research (CAR) as the research design. The subject of the research is
the sixth grade students in the 2013/2014 academic yearthat consists of 43
students. The instruments employed in this study wereobservation checklist,
field note, and vocabulary test. The result of theresearch showed that in cycle
1 the students’ achievement did not fulfill the minimal criteria of success.
However the result of the cycle 1 wasbetter than the preliminary study. The
criteria of success did not fulfill incycle one, some enhancement of the
implementation of ControlledComposition were made in cycle two in the form of:
Instruct the students bring dictionary, give more examples English sentences,
guide the students find the mining of words in the dictionary and write a
paragraph,more motivate the students and preparing a media/ picture .Meanwhilethe
students ’achievement in cycle two showed that fulfilled the criteria of success.
Based on the findings and discussion, the conclusions are: Firstly,Controlled
composition was implemented well by the teacher of SDN 027 Samarinda.
Controlled composition was implemented and gaveimpacts in: (a) increasing the
students’ vocabulary mastery significantly, (b) making the students able to
spell the vocabularies, (c) making thestudents understand the meaning English
words, and (d) making the students able to pronounce English words quite good.
Secondly, Controlled composition improved the students’ vocabulary mastery; it
was only20.9% of the students who achieved the English passing grade in the preliminary
study, but then 81.39% of the students achieved the English passing grade in
the end of cycle 2.
Author: Juriah
Journal Code: jppendidikangg150161
