THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING HELLO ENGLISHAPPLICATION TO TEACH VOCABULARY AT THE TENTHGRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN 1 DURENAN

Fendiasari, Seftya Fransiska (17203163085) The Effectiveness of Using HelloEnglish Application to Teach Vocabulary at the Tenth Grade Studentsof SMAN 1 Durenan. Thesis Department of English Education, Facultyof Tarbiyah and Teacher Training, Institute of Islamic Religion (IAIN)Tulungagung 2020.Advisor : Dr. Hj. Ida Isnawati, M.Pd.Keywords: Hello English Application, Vocabulary, EffectivenessVocabulary is important to be used in communicating in foreign language.Vocabulary influences the student’s ability to write, read, speak and listen. Lackof vocabulary causes difficulties for students to communicate their idea bothorally and written forms. Because the importance of vocabulary, it requires inteaching and learning process with a suitable media to make student interesting.The Hello English application is a media that can increase the student’s interest inlearning and then it will give an effect on student learning outcomes. In this casethe Hello English application is used in teaching vocabulary.From the description above, the problem formulation in this study was “Isthere any significant difference in student’s vocabulary between students who aretaught using the Hello English application and those who are not taught using theHello English application?”. The purpose of this study was to determine thesignificant differences in student vocabulary between students who were taughtusing the Hello English application and those who were not taught using the HelloEnglish application.This study used Quantitative research with a Quasi-experimental researchdesign. The population of this research was the tenth grade students at SMAN 1Durenan. While the sample was Class X Science 2 as an experimental classconsisting of 35 students and X Science 3 as a control class consisted of 36students. This research instrument used a vocabulary test consisted of 25questions. The data analysis using Independent Sample T-test using SPSS 16.0.The results showed that the average value of students from theexperimental class before being taught using the Hello English application was83.60 and the average value of students after being taught using the Hello Englishapplication was 85.66. In the control class the average score of students beforewas 83.36 to 78.17. The average value of students in the experimental class washigher than the average value in the control class. In addition, the results ofstatistical calculations used the Independent Sample T-test with SPSS 16.0 showthat the significant value was 0,000. The means of the significant value wassmaller than the significant level (0,000 <0.05). Significant value results indicatedthat the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) wasaccepted. It means that there was a significant difference in the value of students'vocabulary learning taught using the Hello English application and students'vocabulary learning taught using conventional methods. In other words, the HelloEnglish application was effectively used to teach students' vocabulary.