The effect of word square game to vocabulary mastery of the Grade VIII students SMPN 1 Angkola Timur

Siagian, Ilham Idris (2024) The effect of word square game to vocabulary mastery of the Grade VIII students SMPN 1 Angkola Timur. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The objectives of this study were: 1) to find out the students’ vocabulary mastery at eighth grade of SMP Negeri 1 Angkola Timur before using word square game, 2) to find out the students’ vocabulary mastery at eighth grade of SMP Negeri 1 Angkola Timur after using word square game, and 3) to examine the effect of using word square to vocabulary mastery at eighth grade of SMP Negeri 1 Angkola Timur. This research was quantitative research with experimental method with pre-test, post-test control group design. The instrument of this research was on vocabulary mastery by using multiple choice test (pre-test and post-test). The population of this research is all the eight grade students of SMPN 1 Angkola Timur consisted of 119 students. Sample of this research was VIII-2 (23 students) as experimental class and VIII-1 (23 students) as control class. Thus, total number of sample of this research are 46 students. The research result showed the students‘ vocabulary mastery with mean score of pre-test in experimental class was higher than control class (55.22 > 52.39) is enough category. After using Word Square game, the result of mean score in post-test increases, it was (76.96 > 69.78) is high category, mean score of experimental class was higher than control class. It is also showed that T(count) was higher than T(table) (2.743 > 1.714). It means that the hyphothesis (Ha) is accepted. It is concluded that there was a significant effect of Word Square game to the vocabulary mastery at the eight grade students of SMPN 1 Angkola Timur

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