THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING THE LET ME SPEAK APPLICATION TO TEACH ENGLISH VOCABULARY
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consisting of 37 participants. The data collection technique used in this research is observation. The observation is made during a 3 times treatment activity. The focus of teaching vocabulary in this study was the adjective commonly used in the descriptive text, such as wild, brave, dangerous, and so on. The average value of the pre-test is 57,30. While the average value of the post-test was 83.51, Based on the data obtained in the hypothesis calculation, it was found that the use of Let Me Speak was
effective in teaching vocabulary to students, with a significance level of 5% with dk = 35 shows that T- obtained > T-table (14,24 > 2.030). For the effect size, it showed that the score of using Let Me Speak was very big and had a strong significant effect on teaching vocabulary informed of adjectives in seventh-grade English students at MTs Negeri 2 Pontianak for the 2022/2023 Academic Year.
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