The Effectiveness of Using Group to Group Exchange (GGE) Strategy in Teaching Vocabulary at the Eighth Grade of SMP Negeri 2 Ayah in Academic Years 2015/2016

Abstract

English is not something new for Junior High School students because they have learned since Elementary School. Students should study four English skills and three language components of English when they are in Junior High School. The four English skills are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Then the language components are vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation.Teaching vocabulary can use many kinds of strategy applied by teacher. One of the teaching strategy can be used in teaching vocabulary is Group to Group Exchange (GGE) strategy. The objective of this research is to describe whether Group to Group Exchange strategy is effective or not in teaching vocabulary .The researcher took 32 students as the sample. Then, the researcher gave pre-test and post-test. The researcher taught vocabulary by using GGE strategy at the eighth grade of SMP Negeri 2 Ayah in the academic year 2015/2016. The researcher then analyze the data by using t-test. The result of the research shows that the mean score of pre-test is 65. Meanwhile, the mean score of post-test is 77.13. To see whether the hypothesis is accepted or rejected, t-value is consulted to t-table at the 0.05 significance level. It shows that t-table was -2.04 and t-value was -13.39. It means that t-value was lower than t-table, that was -13.39 > -2.04. Therefore, it can be stated that the hypothesis “ Group to Group Exchange strategy is effective in teaching vocabulary at the eighth grade of SMP Negeri 2 Ayah in the academic year of 2015/2016” is accepted.