The objectives of this study are (1) To describe the implementation of fairy
tales to improve students’ vocabulary power on past form, (2) To improve the
students’ vocabulary power on past form after being taught through fairy tales.
The study was conducted at SMPN 23 Semarang in the academic year of
20010/2011. The subject of this study was the students of eighth grade in class VIII D.
the number of the students was forty. The research design used was classroom action
research. The researcher conducted preliminary research and three cycles in classroom
action research. The data from the observation that had been done in every cycle were
analyzed in descriptive explanation while the data from test explained quantitatively.
The data collection was done using observation and test.
The result shows in preliminary, there were about