THE EFFECTS OF CONTEXT CLUES AND MENOMONICS TECHNQUES OF STUDENTS; VOCABULARY MASTERY

The objectives of this study are to investigate whether context clues and mnemonics
techniques significantly affect students voca&ulary mastery. A quantitative approach
in ~xperimental design was carried out to colJect the data of this study. The sec::ond
year students of SMA Nur Hasanah Medan of the second semester in tbC period of
2006-2007 "vere taken as the samples of this study in random and cluster sampling
with 90 students divided into three groups. The data were analyzed by means of
statistical analysis by applying one-way ANOVA Tbe results of testing the flrst
hypothesis shows that the F~bservcd is higher than F•table (4.SO > 3.11). and tbe
second hypothesis shows that F-observed is higher than F-table •also (8.6~>3.1l),
while the third hypothesis shows that F-observed is higher than F•table, it is
( 17.60>3. ll). On the basis of testing the hypothesss. t n mgs s ow t t
(1) context clues $ignifica.ntly atfe<;ts ~udwts vocabulary mastery, (.Z) mnemonics
techniques significantly affects students• vocabulary mastery and (3) both context
ctu:s and mnemo~cs techniques significantly affect students• vocabulary mastery.
Based on the research findings, it is concluded that teaching techniques with conten
clues and mnemonics techniques facilitate the stUdents• vocabulary mastery.