Improving Students’ Vocabulary Mastery Through Outdoor Learning Activities

Abstract

This research was intended to find out whether or not outdoor Learning activities can improve students’ vocabulary mastery of tenth grade students of SMA BATARA GOWA. This research used pre-experiment method. The population of this research was the tenth grade students of SMA BATARA GOWA in academic Year 2013- 2014. The Sample of this research used random sampling technique. In collecting the data, the research applied vocabulary test which consists of two tests namely pre-test and post-test. The result of this research showed that the outdoor Learning activities can increase students’ vocabulary mastery. It can be proven by the means score of pre-test and post – test where pre-test 50,63 and post-test 62,46 Post-test is higher than pre-test and t-test value is higher than t-table. The researcher concluded that outdoor Learning activities can improve students’ vocabulary mastery of tenth grade students of SMA Batara Gowa.