Fifi Elyani ZHULAIKHOH Pengarang Rostanti Toba, M.Pd. Dosen Pembimbing 2 Bahrani, M.Pd. Dosen Pembimbing 1 Dra. Sitti Hadijah, M.Pd. Penguji 1 Rostanti Toba, M.Pd. Ketua Penguji Nadya Sya'ya, M.Pd., M.TESOL Penguji 2

Fifi Elyani Zhulaikhoh, 2019. “Effectiveness of Using Picture to Improve Students’ Vocabulary at the Fifth Grade Of MI Ma’arif NU 003 Samarinda Academic Year 2019/2020”.Under Graduate Degree, Thesis, English Education Department, Teacher Training and Tarbiyah Faculty, State Islamic Institute of Samarinda. This thesis was under guidance BahraniM.Pd as the first advisor and Rostanti Toba M.Pd as the second advisor. Vocabulary is important in language learning process in order to get other competencies like reading, writing, listening and speaking. Mastery of vocabulary is a necessity for someone who wants to understand a reading, conversation, or writing English. Without sufficient vocabulary, it is impossible to achieve that goal. Commonly, students cannot compose a sentence or phrase in speaking, even writing and reading because they are poor in vocabulary. The objective of this research is to find out the effectiveness of using pictures in teaching vocabulary at the fifth grade students of MI Ma’arif NU 003 Samarinda in the academic year of 2019/2020. In this research the researcher used experimental research. Population of the research was the fifth grade students of MI Ma’arif NU 003 Samarinda in the academic year of 2019/2020. This research was conducted into two groups; experimental group (V A) and control group (V B) which were chosen by simple random sampling technique. Experimental group was taught by using pictures and class control group was taught in conventional way. The instrument of the research was test (multiple choice forms). In this research, the data analysis technique used was technique of scoring test, Pre-test, and Post-test. Based on the result of research, the experimental group obtained the t-count 4.675 and the significance value 0,000. The significance value is lower than 0,05. Than it can be stated that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected, which means there was difference significant in the result of the post-test experimental group who taught by using picture and the control group who are taught without using picture. In conclusion, using picture to improve vocabulary is more effective than conventional models in learning.