Improving the Students’ English Vocabulary by Using Whispering Game

   ”Improving the Students’ English Vocabulary at the Second Year of SMP Negeri 3 Kahu by Using Whispering Game”.

ABSTRACT

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Title               :  ”Improving the Second Year Students’ English Vocabulary at SMP Negeri 3 Kahu by Using Whispering Game”. 

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            The purpose of this research was to improve the vocabulary mastery of the second year students of SMP Negeri 3 Kahu by using whispering game.

The method used was pre-experimental with pre-test and post-test design. The sample was the second year students of SMP Negeri 3 Kahu academic year 2009/2010 with 27 students. The instrument of this research was vocabulary test and used to know whether the students’ vocabulary mastery improved after giving treatment.

After several meetings, this research found out the use of whispering game significantly effective to improve the students’ ability in memorizing vocabulary. The result of this research was (1) the mean score obtained by students through pre-test was 65.3 and post-test was 77,4 (2) the t-test value was higher than t-table (8.5 > 2.056). It means that this is a significant difference between the result of the students’ pre-test and post-test. Therefore, hypothesis H0 was rejected and H1 was accepted.

Based on the data analysis, it was concluded that the students’ vocabulary mastery improved by using whispering game method.

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