Abstract:
Vocabulary is one of English communication that must be taught to the
students because vocabulary has an important role for all language skills. But in
teaching vocabulary, the students have difficulties in memorizing new words; so
they lack of vocabulary. The objective of this research is to find out whether there
is any effectiveness of using bingo game in teaching vocabulary to eight grade
students of SMP N 15 Purworejo in academic year 2016/2017.This research
belongs to experimental research. This research was carried out at SMP N 15
Purworejo. The total number of the population is 160 students. This research used
64 sample. To collect the data, the researcher used pre-test and post-test as the
treatment. Then, the data result analyzed by using t-test formula.The result of the
mean of score of post test of experimental group is higher than control group
(80.31 > 66.88). In addition, the result of t-value is 5.57. Then, the researcher
consluts the critical value on the t-table using 5% (0.05) alpha level significance
and the degree of freedom is 1.697. It means that that the use of bingo game in
teaching vocabulary of the rad students at the SMP N 15 Purworejo is effective.
