The Effect of Applying Boggle Games on The Students’ Vocabulary Mastery

Abstract

This research was purposed to investigated The Effect of Applying Boggle Games on The Students’ Vocabulary Mastery. The Effect means of the learning process should be viewed from certain teacher relationships that teach certain groups of students. And boggle games are simplest to teaching vocabulary for some students by using games as a media instead just use ordinary way itself. the objective in this research to figure out the significant effect of using boggle games on students to improve their vocabulary mastery. The population of this study was the eleventh-grade students of MA Muhammadiyah 01 Medan at academic year 2019/2020. The populations were 62 students which separated into both XI IPA and XI IPS. The population divided into 2 group: XI IPA as experimental class taught by using Boggle games and grammar translation method and XI IPS as control class taught by using lecture method. The type of this research was experimental research design. Both of group was given pre-test, treatment, post-test. The data was calculated and analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of the analysis appeared that t-test was higher than ttable (2.94>1.20) with the level significant of 0.05% and degree of freedom (df) = 60. The result showed that the students’ vocabulary mastery was improved by using boggle games. Otherwise, hypothesis of this study is accepted and means that Boggle games brought significant effect on student’s vocabulary.