The Use of Comic Application to Improve Vocabulary Mastery, Of The Twelfth Grade Students at MA Alkhairat Pusat

The researcher was motivated to discuss this thesis entitled “the use of comic application in increasing vocabulary mastery of the twelvth grade students” because students still have difficulty speaking due to lack of vocabulary mastery. This research aims to determine whether comic application can be successful in improving students' vocabulary mastery. To achieve the objectives of this research, the researcher used quantitative research with experimental design using on-group-pretest-posttest. The researcher took one class as the experimental class, namely the MIA class with 15 students being taught using acomic application. The selection of samples in this research used purposive sampling.
The result of this research, the researcher got the mean score of the students' pre-test was 48.33 while the average score of the post-test was 74.00. Then the data were analyzed using the t-test formula. The results showed that t-count was greater than t-table, t-count = 6.282 and t-table = 1.771 at a significance level of 0.05. This means that the research hypothesis was accepted. In addition, it can be concluded that there is a significant improving in students' vocabulary mastery after using comic application as learning materials.
The implication of this research was the used of comic application as learning material can be said “successful to improve students' vocabulary mastery at MA Alkhairat pusat palu”. It is hoped that prospective educators can present teaching materials well and interestingly so that they are easy to understand and not boring and can make a comfortable learning atmosphere so that the class becomes more conducive.