Improving Students’ Vocabulary Mastery by Using Digital English Comic

Abstract

The objective of the research was to find out whether digital English comic can enrich students’ vocabulary mastery. The researcher applied a pre-experimental method. The population of the research was the second grade of SMP YP PGRI 4 Makassar. The sample consisted of 12 students. The data were collected through vocabulary test (pre-test and post-test). To find out the students’ improvement of using digital English comic in learning vocabulary, the researcher applied t-test analysis. The research result indicated that there was a significant difference between pre-test and post-test. The mean score of pre test (47.083) which was lower than the mean score of post-test (82.91) and the value of t-test (16.924) was greater than the t-table (1.796) at the level of significance (p) = 0,05 and degree of freedom (df) = 11. It is concluded that digital English comic can imporove students’ vocabulary mastery.