The effect of scrabble game to students’ vocabulary mastery at Grade VIII MTs N 3 Padang Lawas Utara

Siregar, Rahmadani (2023) The effect of scrabble game to students’ vocabulary mastery at Grade VIII MTs N 3 Padang Lawas Utara. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This study intended to investigate the effect of Scrabble Game to Students’ Vocabulary Mastery At Grade VIII MTs N 3 Padang Lawas Utara. The problems faced by students in vocabulary were (1) The students have lack of vocabulary.(2) The students felt uninterest to learn English learning (3) The teacher only use conventional method. This study had three formulations of the problem, they were how the students‘ vocabulary mastery before learning using scrabble game is, how the students‘ vocabulary mastery after learning using scrabble game is, and whether there was any significant effect of Scrabble Game on students‘ vocabulary mastery at grade VIII MTs N 3 Padang Lawas Utara is. The purposes of this study were to describe the students‘ vocabulary mastery before learning using scrabble game, to describe the students‘ vocabulary mastery after learning using scrabble game and to examine whether there was significant effect of scrabble game on students’ vocabulary mastery at grade VIII of MTs N 3 Padang Lawas Utara. This study used experimental quantitative method with pre-test and post- test control group design. The population was all of the students at the grade of MTs N 3 Padang Lawas Utara. The samples were VIII-A grade as experimental class consisted of 24 students and VIII-B grade as control class consisted of 24 students. The data were collected from Vocabulary test and analyzed by using T-test formula. The result of this study showed that the mean score of experimental class was higher than the mean score of control class after learning by using Scrabble Game. The mean score of experimental class in pre-test was 51.95 and control class was 51.83. Moreover, the mean score of experimental class in post-test was 76.5 and the mean score of control class in post-test was 70.5. In addition, after doing T-test, this study found that tcount > ttable (3.42> 1.68). Therefore, alternative hypothesis (Ha) of this study was accepted, null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. It can be concluded that there was the effect of scrabble game to students’ vocabulary mastery at grade VIII MTs N 3 Padang Lawas Utara.

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