INCREASING VOCABULARY MASTERY OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS THROUGH WORD CHAIN GAME

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to find out whether students’ vocabulary can be increased by word chain game or not. The research was pre experimental design.The population was the seventh grade student and selected by using purposive sampling technique. The instrument of data collection was pre-test and post-test. The pre-test was used to find out students’ prior knowledge in vocabulary before the treatment while post-test was used to measure whether the method could increase students’ vocabulary mastery or not.The result of the data shows that the mean score of pre-test is 30.6 and post-test is 63.6. The researcher found the t-counted (9.56) was higher than t-table (1.725). It proves that the research hypothesis was accepted. In conclusion, word chain gamecan increase vocabulary mastery of the seventh grade students at SMP Negeri 1 Tinombo.

Keywords: Increasing Vocabulary Mastery, Word Chain Game.