The Use Of Information Gap Technique To Improve Students’ Vocabulary Mastery At The First Grade Of MA Alkhairaat Sibalaya

Vocabulary mastery is one of the important aspects that must be learn students in foreign language learning. Moreover, an individual has to know vocabulary to communicate with other individuals because vocabulary can support their four skills listening, speaking, reading and writing. Most of the students at MA Alkhairaat Sibalaya has lacking of vocabulary, with this problem the researcher used the information gap technique to solve that problem. The information gap is a very useful technique that can help the student‟s by some activity such as fill in the blank, missing the information, and incomplete maps and they can communicate with their classmates to fill in the gaps. The population of this study was the first-grade students of MA Alkhairaat Sibalaya. The sample of the research was 20 students and the total number each class was 10 students. X IPA as the experimental class and the X IPS as the control. The research analyzes the data statistically. In analyzing the data, the researcher used a 0.05 level of significance and the degree of freedom ((df) = Nx+Ny=10+10=2=18) The result data analysis shows that the posttest means score of the experimental class was 77 meanwhile the posttest mean score control class was 54,5. The result of the analysis showed that there was a significant difference. It means that the use of the Information Gap technique in teaching was better than the conventional method. It could be concluded that H1 was accepted that the use of the Information Gap Technique was improve students‟ vocabulary mastery. The result of t-counted (2,500) was higher than t-table (2.158). It means that hypothesis in this research was accepted In conclusion, there is any significant improvement before and after giving a treatment by using the information gap technique at the first grade of MA ALkhairaat Sibalaya.