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This current research was carried out to investigate the effectiveness of Total Physical Response on students vocabulary mastery in speaking and writing ability. this paper uses an experimental research. Two classes of students from MTs Negeri 5 Pandeglang are selected as the experimental subject. Both of the experimental and control class consisted 58 students. In the process of experiment, one class of students are taught by Total Physical Response method, another class of students are taught by Present Practice and Product. To find out the effectiveness of Total Physical Response method on students vocabulary mastery, the vocabulary data pretest and post test were analyzed using paired simple t-test. Meanwhile, the data vocabulary mastery (X) to speaking (Y1) and the data of vocabulary mastery (X) to writing ability (Y2) were analyzed using regression linear. The research reveals that Total Physical Response method was an effective method for teaching vocabulary based on the mean score pretest to post test (57,06-71,20). Total Physical Response method was an effective on vocabulary mastery in speaking ability 66,5% .Total Physical Response method was also an effective method on vocabulary mastery in writing ability 66,5% especially in labeling objects or pictures as cues of writing activities.