The Analysis of “English Camp” toward the Students’ Vocabulary and Speaking Ability

Abstract

English Camp is an English learning activity which is designed to stimulate student motivation in learning English and practice English in their daily communication. The purpose of the research was to find out whether ‘English camp’ is effective on students’ vocabulary mastery and speaking ability at SMP Perguruan Islam Ar Risalah. This research was qualitative descriptive research design. The instrument used in this research was test result and to collect the data, the researcher used rubric as modified from Marek & Wu (2014). To support the successful of the research, the researcher collected the post test result in this research. Thus, in this research, there were two test that were already administered. Based on the data analysis, there was a significant effect of English camp on student’s vocabulary mastery and speaking ability. It was proved that the mean of student’s pretest and student’s total posttest was very significantly different.