Tegisa Dwi Septian , 2201413031 (2019) STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS ON ONLINE GAME PRACTICES AND THEIR VOCABULARY ATTAINMENT IN ENGLISH RELATED TO ONLINE GAME. Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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Abstract

This research is about a phenomenon of online games among Indonesian students, the purposes of this study were to explore students’ perceptions on online game practices and their vocabulary attainment in English related to online game. This research is a qualitative case study. The data collection methods were questionnaire, test, and interviewed some of the students. The first data of this study were ‘Yes or No’ answers and result of the test. The second data was the conversation between the researcher and some of the students. The result of the study showed that all students know what online game is, they all ever try playing the online game. They got many good impacts from the online game, such as: learning a foreign language, history, new friendship. But, not all students got a good impact. Some of them got negative impacts, such as: being antisocial, spending much time and money for the online game, and getting lazy to study that makes their academic achievement decreased. The students stated that there were relations between online game practices and their competence in English. But, the result of the vocabulary test showed the opposite. Most of them got misunderstanding the instruction of the test which makes some students got low score on their vocabulary test.

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