THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WORD CLAP GAME STRATEGY TO TEACH STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY
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2022-10-04
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY PURWOREJO MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY
Abstract
Teaching vocabulary to children is different from teaching vocabulary to teenagers and
adults. Just as teaching English at the elementary level is very important and needs a lot of
attention because children get bored easily. Therefore, this research aimed to find out whether
there is any effectiveness of using word clap game to teach students’ vocabulary mastery.
This research belongs to quantitative research using pre-experimental design. The
population of this research is the fourth grade students of SD Muhammadiyah Purwodadi in the
academic year of 2021/2022 which consists of 298 students. The sample of this research is fourth
grade AL Qowiyyu consist of 25 students. The data were taken on April 11th 2022 until May
19st 2022. The instrument for data collection is using test. It was done by giving pre-test and
post-test. Meanwhile, the technique of data analysis used descriptive statistic analysis and
inferential analysis.
The result of this research shows that the mean score of pre-test is 67.96 which belongs to
fairly sufficient category, and the mean score of post-test is 86.00 which belongs to good
category. To see whether the hypothesis is accepted or rejected, the researcher uses t-test through
IBM SPSS 23. The result of the t-test shows that the t-value is -7,677 because the calculation
is absolute, it is changed to 7,677. As a result t-value is higher than t-table that is equal to 2.060.
The result of two sided significance value is 0.000. Based on the 0.05 significance level, the
computation shows that two sided significance value is lower than 0.05 (0.000<0.05). Therefore,
it can be concluded that word clap game strategy is effective to teach vocabulary mastery on the
fourth grade of SD Muhammadiyah Purwodadi in academic year of 2021/2022