Abstract:
The purpose of the research was to know the effect of real object
towards students’ vocabulary. The result of this study are expected to be
useful for students to enrich the ability vocabulary, and it can help teachers
to be more creative.
The research method applied is pre-experiment method using a pretest, treatment, post-test. The subject of this research is VII-2 class at
SMP Negeri 35 Makassar academic year 2017/2018. This research
applied total sampling technique, with a total sample of 21 students’.
The result of data analysis shown that there is a significant effect of
students’ vocabulary by using Real Object as a media in the learning
process. It could be seen from the value of the test. The t-test value is
12,12 and the t-table value wa 2.086. It means the t-test value is higher
than the t-table value. Those values shows that the use of real objects
have effect towards students vocabulary mastery of the first year students
at SMP Negeri 35 Makassar.
