Galuh Hapsari Mutu Manikam, 2201906004 (2009) The Use of Flash Game as A Media to Improve Students Vocabulary (A Case of Year Seventh Students of SMP N I Kaliwungu). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

Vocabulary is a sum or stock list of word employed by a language group, individual or in relation, to be a subject. In language teaching to improve students’ vocabulary mastery, the term vocabulary covered the development of words, the meaning and the links between them. In teaching vocabulary, teacher should consider some principles that are aims, quantity, need, frequent exposure and repetition, meaningful presentation, and situation presentation. Flash game is a game in which the object is for one player to perform any kind of pictures along with the questions available. The problem discussed in this study is whether teaching vocabulary by using Flash game is effective or not for students of Junior High School. Therefore, the objective of the study is to find out whether teaching vocabulary using Flash game is effective or not for student of Junior High School. In this study, the population was the year seven students of SMP Negeri I Kaliwungu in the 2008/ 2009 academic year. The number of population was 309 students classified into 8 classes. In taking the sample, I use simple random sampling. I choose 40 students out of 309 students, whereas 40 students from class E. For this class, I divided into two groups; 20 students is control group and 20 students for experiment group. Before conducting the research in SMP N I Kaliwungu, the instrument had been tried out first in different class to find the validity, reliability, item difficulty, and discriminating power. Then I began the research by giving a pre-test to the students. After that, the treatments were given to them. The activity is continued by answering formative test for each treatment. At the end of the research, I gave a post-test to them. The mean of post test 80.5 were higher than the mean of the pre test 68.8. It can be concluded that the students’ achievement in learning vocabulary through Flash game had a significant improvement. Therefore, the technique of teaching vocabulary by using Flash game presented in this study was proved effective. Based on this conclusion, the suggestion given is that the English teacher may teach vocabulary using game especially Flash game as the media.

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