Abstract:
The objective to find out the effect of using context clues in in enhancing
students vocabulary building through reading text at SMPN 52 Makassar.
The writer used instrument; it is a reading and vocabulary test that given
(pre-test and post-test). The pre-test was used to find out data about the
recognition and understanding of students’ vocabulary before implementing the
context clues strategy and the post-test was carried out to find out data about the
introduction and understanding of students' vocabulary after implementing the
context clues strategy. The method used in this study is a pre-experiment using
one class. The population in this study were all students of class VIII-DSMPN 52
Makassar, totally 28 students, so the writer took a purposive sampling technique.
In addition, to analyse the data, writer used SPSS 21.
The results showed that the increase in students' vocabulary recognition
increased on all indicators of word recognition, such as identifying clues in
multiple choice (69.23% progress) and finding word meanings (43.02% progress).
The results of this study finally showed that the students' vocabulary
understanding was 53.00 for their pre-test and 81.64 for their post-test. This fact
shows that the students’ score in the post-test is higher than the pre-test score. It
can be concluded that vocabulary learning with the context clues strategy was
effective in improving vocabulary VIII-D SMPN 52 Makassar.
