The Use of Scattergories Board Game To Improve Students Vocabulary Mastery and Reading Comprehension for The Eighth Year Students of SMP Islam Ambarawa in the Academic Year of 2016/2017

Khikmah, Nur (2016) The Use of Scattergories Board Game To Improve Students Vocabulary Mastery and Reading Comprehension for The Eighth Year Students of SMP Islam Ambarawa in the Academic Year of 2016/2017. Other thesis, Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Ilmu Keguruan.

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Abstract

The goals of this research are to know the implementation of scattergories board game and to find out the students’ improvement after implementation of scattergories board game. This is classroom action research. The subject of this research is the VIII B students’ of SMP Islam Sudirman Ambarawa in the academic year of 2016/2017. It consists of 37 students. The research is conducted in two cycles. There are two meetings in cycle 1 and three meetings in cycles 2. Technique in collecting the data are qualitatives and quantitatives method. In qualitatives method, the researcher uses interview, observation sheet, field notes and documentation. In quantitatives method, the researcher uses pre-test and post-test. The result of pre-test and post test are compared to find out the improvement of reading comprehension after research action. The findings of the research shows that scattergories board game improves students’ vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension. It can be seen from the mean of pre-test and post-test. The mean score of pre-test is 49.45 and it improves in 62.70 post-test 1. It also improves 69.72 in pre-test 2 and 75,40 in post-test 2. Furthermore, percentage of the students who pass KKM also improves from pre-test and post-test cycle 1 and cycle 2. Percentage of pre-test 1 is 2.70% and post-test 1 is 40.54% while percentage of pre-test 2 is 62.17% and post-test 2 is 89.18%.It also shows from t-calculation of each cycle. In cycle 1 t-calculation is 10.34 while cycle 2 is 3.03. It can be seen that t-calculation is bigger than t-table 2.02. It indicates that by implementing scattergories board game, students’ vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension can be improved.

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