| dc.description.abstract | The English vocabulary mastery of Junior High School students had been influenced
by their previous experience of learning English in Elementary School.
The study was aimed to examine the influence of the English learning implementation
in Elementary School towards the level of students’ English learning achievement
in the next stage, Junior High School. For convenience, four Junior High
Schools were chosen as sample schools, i..e: SMP Negeri 1, SMP Negeri 8, SMP
Al-Irsyad and SMP Susteran in the town of Purwokerto. This type of ex-post facto
survey includes 142 students from the first year consisting of 73 students from
Elementary Schools which had implemented the English teaching while 69, from
schools which had not. To know their achieving of English, the students were given
a test on vocabulary which was learned for the first four months. The result shows
that using the t-test statistical tool, t-value is much greater than t-critical value or 3.0692
> 1.960 with 140 df, at the 5% level of significance. It means that the alternative
hypothesis: “a significant difference in the mastery of Junior High School between
students who had received English as a compulsory course at their elementary
schooling background and those who had not exists” is confirmed. Therefore, it is
statistically proven that the teaching of English at Elementary Schools contributes
to the students’ English achievement. | en_US |
