The Effect of Teaching English Vocabulary on Junior High School Students by Using Wordwall.net
Pengaruh Pengajaran Kosakata Bahasa Inggris pada Siswa Sekolah Menengah Pertama dengan Menggunakan Wordwall.net
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Teaching English, Vocabulary, Wordwall.netAbstract
The use of the web in teaching and learning process is one of the fun and challenging learning innovations such as wordwall.net which are educational web games. Wordwall.net offers a variety of interesting and vocabulary-building games. The researchers discovered a problem: student scores are still low in one area of assessment, so the purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of using wordwall.net on students’ English vocabulary in SMP Negeri 1 Wonoayu. This research used a true-experimental with 70 students in the experimental group and control group. A vocabulary test was one of the research tools utilized in this study. The pre-test mean was 65.00 (experimental group) and 57.73 (control group) and the post-test mean was 89.13 (experimental group) and 77.90 (control group). The result of independent sample t-test showed that the probability value of both groups is 0.001, so it indicates that wordwall influences students’ vocabulary improvement.
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