The aim of the research was
to know
the effectiveness of
card sort
technique in teaching English vocabulary at the seventh grade
students
of SMP
Muhammadiyah 2 Cilacap
in academic year 201
4
/201
5.The method of the
research was experiment. The samples of this r
esearch were 30 students from
VII
C class
as the
control
group
and 3
0
students from VII
D class
as the
experimental
group
. The experimental
group
was taught using c
ard sort
technique
while the control
group
was t
aug
ht using conventional technique
. Multiple choice
test was used to collect the data of this research, namely pre
-test and post
-test.
Based on the data analysis, it was found that t
-test score was 3
.830
while t
-table
score at level of significance 0.05 fo
r df 58
is 1
.
672, s
o t
-test
was
higher than t
-
table (3
.830
> 1
.67
2). It means that
card sort
technique
was
effective for teaching
vocabulary at the seventh grade
students
of SMP
Muhammadiyah 2 Cilacap
.