IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY THROUGH PICTIONARY GAME
Abstract
The vocabulary mastery of students at SMP Negeri 1 Blangpidie remains poor. To address this issue, this study investigates the effectiveness of the Pictionary game in enhancing students’ vocabulary mastery. An experimental method was employed in this study. The subjects of this study were 28 students (12 are boys and 16 are girls) from class VII.B at SMP Negeri 1 Blangpidie. The data were collected through pre-tests and post-tests and analyzed by using a paired-sample t-test to see the improvements in students’ vocabulary mastery after treatment. The findings showed that the use of Pictionary card games significantly improves students' vocabulary mastery, as indicated by an increase in the mean scores from 46 in the pre-test to 63 in the post-test. In addition, the data from the pair sample T-test revealed that t-score of 9.48 with a significance level of 0.000. Since the significance value (sig) is 0.000, which is less than 0.05, the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected, and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. Therefore, it can be concluded that the use of Pictionary game is effective in improving students’ vocabulary. This means that the use of the Pictionary game is recommended to be applied in teaching vocabulary.References
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