The Effect of Stirred Words and Sentences Game on the Students’ Vocabulary Mastery at MAS PAB 2 Helvetia in 2017/2018 Academic Year (original) (raw)

The aim of this research is to find out the empirical evidence of the students" vocabulary mastery that are taught by using Stirred Words and Sentences Game, to know the students" vocabulary mastery that are taught by using conventional method and to find out whether there is a significant effect of Stirred Words and Sentences Game on the students" vocabulary mastery at tenth grade students of MAS PAB 2 Helvetia in 2017/2018 academic year. The research methodology of this research is quantitative experimental research, which conducted the experimental and control class. The population of the research is the tenth grade students of MAS PAB 2 Helvetia, the number of students are 72 students consist of two classes. The experimental class (X-MIA) is 36 students and control class (X-IIS) is 36 students as sample with total are 72 students. The researcher gives 30 vocabulary questions to collect the data. There are two test; pre-test and post-test. The formula that is used to analyze the data is t-test. The researcher finds that the mean of pre-test in experimental class is 59.39 and control class is 54.94. Mean of post-test in experimental class is 86.92 and control class is 67.69. It is found that t observation is 6.482, whereas the t table is 1.994 for α= 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df)70. The t observation is higher than t table (6.482>1.994), so null hypothesis (H 0) is rejected and alternative hypothesis (H a) is accepted. It means that there is a significant effect of using Stirred Words and Sentences Game on the students" vocabulary mastery. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT In the name of Allah, the beneficient, the merciful. Praise be to Allah, the cherisher and Sustainer of the world, who has given the writer many things such as chance to learn, strength, motivation, and guidance for the writer, therefore this paper can be finished thoroughly. Peace and blessing be upon to Prophet Muhammad SAW, his families, his relatives, and all followers.