Improving students’ vocabulary mastery through guessing games at grade VIII islamic junior high school AlWasliyah Sihepeng Mandailing Natal

Wahyuni, Mega (2015) Improving students’ vocabulary mastery through guessing games at grade VIII islamic junior high school AlWasliyah Sihepeng Mandailing Natal. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research was talking about Improving Students’ Vocabulary Mastery through Guessing Games at Grade VIII Islamic Junior High School AlWasliyahSihepengMandailing Natal. Students’ problem hadlack of interestand students’ had low achievement in vocabulary mastery. This research purposed to describe students’ achievement score and to identify factors influence students vocabulary mastery at Islamic Junior High School Al-WasliyahSihepengMandailing Natal. The method used in this research was classroom action research, by implementing the Kemmis design which were consisted four steps. Those were planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. Moreover, to solve the problem, the researcher conducted classroom action research, by implementing guessing games technique. The participant of this research was one class consisted of 28 students. The researcher used vocabulary tests as the instruments for collecting the data, observation sheet and interview. Based on the research result, showed the improvement mean score of the students. The first test in the first cycle was 70.53 (53.57%), and second test in the second cycle was 82.32 (96.42%).In the first cycle was categorized into enough category and the second cycle was categorized into very good category. Based on the problems, in identify names of fruit, names of animal,classroom object, professions and part of human body; it was solved by giving the explanation again through guessing games, by motivating and asked them to learn more vocabulary at home.Based on the data from observation sheet indicated that the students got improvement and to be motivated toward English especially in learning vocabulary. It indicated that the application of guessing games technique improved students’ vocabulary mastery achievement. .

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