THE USE OF FLASHCARDS TO ENHANCE STUDENT’S SPEAKING SKILL TROUGH VOCABULARY MASTERY (A Classroom Action Research for the Members of Indonusa English Club in the Second Semester of Academic Year 2016-2017)

Abstract

The study aimed to know whether flashcard can enhance the students speaking skill through vocabulary mastery and whether flashcard can enhance students’ interest in learning vocabulary.This media is implemented to the 20 students of Indonusa English Club which still have limited vocabulary to speak fluently and have difficulty in mastering the vocabulary.The study used classroom action research as the methodology. There were two cycles which in every cycle consist of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The data of the study were collected by using qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques. The result of the studyreveals that the use of Flashcards can enhance the students’ speaking skill through vocabulary mastery, the students speak more fluent because they easily learned the vocabulary and they are not lack of vocabulary. It can be seen from the result of mean score of the pre-test in the first cycle which improve from 62 to 68.5 in the post test and 63.6 in the pre-test to 70.8 in the post test of  cycle two. Using flash cards could make the students learn faster because they enjoy. Flashcard improved students’ participation in learning vocabulary and it proved that flashcard could enhance students interest in learning vocabulary.