THE INFLUENCE OF PLAYING PLAYSTATION GAMES ON STUDENTS VOCABULARY MASTERY OF EIGHTH GRADE AT SMP N 22 PURWOREJO ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

Language has very important in our life and its function is to communication. PlayStation is an electronic game provides different types of games that would have been favored by all circles. Most playstation games uses English language. This leads inevitably to the user at least a little understanding with English language instructions contained on the playstation games. Eventually they become familiar with words or sentences-speaking English so that it can add to the English vocabulary is not obtained from the English lessons at school. The research is proposed to analyze the influence of playing playstation games on vocabulary mastery of eighth grade at SMP N 22 Purworejo in academic year 2012/2013. Is there any influence of playing playstation games on students’ vocabulary mastery of eighth grade at SMP N 22 Purworejo in academic year 2012/2013? This research was carried out on May 6th 2013. The research was conducted at SMP N 22 Purworejo. The population is 180 students So, the researcher takes 60 students of VIII A and VIII B class. This research is a descriptive quantitative research in which the researcher emphasizes in finding out whether or not there is any positive and significant influence of playing playstation games on student’s vocabulary mastery of eighth grade at SMP N 22 Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013. The result shows that the correlation (0.84) is more than rtable (0.254), it means that there is a positive correlation between two variables. The coefficient in 𝑡𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒=12.010 is higher than 𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒= 2.000, so it is significant. The researcher concludes that the hypothesis which stated in chapter I is answered, that there is a