IMPROVING ENGLISH VOCABULARY MASTERY OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 50 PALEMBANG BY USING SHOPAHOLIC GAME
Daftar Isi:
- The objective of this study was to find out whether or not there was a significant difference on the vocabulary mastery between the students who were taught through Shopaholic Game. An experimental method was used in this study. The population of this study was all the Seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 50 Palembang in the academic year 2014/2015 with the total number of 400 students. The sample were 40 students which was taken by using purposive sampling. Twenty students from class VII.10 belonged to the experimental group and twenty students from class VII.9 became the control group. In this study, the experimental group was taught through Shopaholic Game while the control group was not any treatment at all. The data were collected by means of vocabulary test which was administered as the pretest and posttest for both groups. The data obtained from the test were analyzed by using t-test (paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test) statistically. The finding showed that Shopaholic Game was more effective to improve student’s vocabulary achievement.