Improving Students' English Skills Using Bilingual Word Wall Media at SMPN Satap 3 Hanau, Paring Raya Village

Abstract

This research aimed at improving students' English skills using bilingual word walls media at SMPN Satap 3 Hanau, Paring Raya village. This present research is an alternative to improve the English language skills of students who have minimum internet access and inadequate facilities and infrastructure. To meet the research objective, classroom action research was used as the research method. The research data were obtained through observation, field notes, and data from the students' vocabulary mastery test results. This research was carried out through several stages, namely: (1) planning the actions to be taken, namely preparing the model and approach to be taken; (2) using Word wall media in learning; (3) Observing the results of the action; (4) examining, seeing and considering the results or impacts of actions from various criteria. The results showed that in the first cycle there was an improvement of students' vocabulary mastery by 23.3% and in the second cycle had an improvement of vocabulary mastery by 33.6%. In conclusion, Word wall media helped students remember vocabulary while the Vocabularies Handbook pocketbook makes it easy to search for vocabulary according to the material in a shorter time than searching in a dictionary.