The effectiveness of using word chain games towards the students’ vocabulary mastery at SMPN 26 Bandar Lampung

Abstract

The research aimed to find out whether there was a significant effect of using word chain games towards students’ vocabulary mastery in the teaching-learning process. This research was conducted on the eight grade students of SMPN 26 Bandar Lampung in the academic year 2021/2022 in the second semester. Class VIII B consisting of 28 students was chosen as the sample of this research. This research was quantitative. The design used was one group pre-test and post-test. The instrument was a vocabulary test that consisted of two parts that were pre-test and a post-test and the data were analyzed using the Paired Sample t-test in SPSS 23. The results showed that the students’ mean score on the pre-test was 41.00 and the mean score on the post-test was 68.43. Besides, the improvement of students’ mean scores from the pre-test to the post-test was 27.42 and the p-value of a significant level was 0.000 which was lower than 0.05. Therefore, H1 is accepted that there is a significant effect of using word chain games towards students’ vocabulary mastery.