The aim of this research was to find out the effectiveness of Personal
Vocabulary Notes (PVN) for Teaching Students’ Vocabulary. This research was
conducted at SMP Muhammadiyah Sumbang in academic year 2011/ 2012.
The treatment of this research was carried out in 15th until 25th of
February 2012. The total sample of this research was 80 respondents. The
respondents were divided into control class and experimental class. The technique
of collecting the data used tests. Those were pre-test and post-test. The test was
given for control class and experimental class.
Based on the result of data analysis, it was found that the result of t-test
was 3.681, while the t-table score at the significant level α= 0,05 for df (degree of
freedom)= 78 was 1.665. Thus, the t-test value was higher than t-table
(3.681>1.665). It means that the hypothesis which stated that Personal Vocabulary
Notes PVN tehnique was effective to teach vocabulary at seventh grade students
of SMP Muhammadiyah Sumbang in academic year 2011/2012 was accepted.