The Effectiveness of Using Hangman Game in Teaching Vocabulary for the Seventh Grade Students at SMPN 208 Jakarta in 2015/2016 Academic Year

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WAHYUNI, FIRNA DWI FADLIYANTI. The Effectiveness of Using
Hangman Game in Teaching Vocabulary for the Seventh Grade Students at
SMPN 208 Jakarta in 2015/2016 Academic Year. Paper. Jakarta. The Study
Programme of English Education. The School of Teacher Training and Education,
The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA, 2016.
The objective of this research was to get the information about using
hangman game in teaching vocabulary; moreover, it was conducted to get the
effective techniques in teaching vocabulary at the Seventh Grade Students of
SMPN 208 Jakarta in Academic Year of 2015/2016. The sample of the research
was 36 students of seventh grade students in SMPN 208 Jakarta. The writer used
pre experimental research in the quantitative form by collecting data from pre-test
and post-test. The data collected in this research were analyzed by using t-test
formula.
According to the result of statistical calculation, it was obtained that the
value of the to (t observation) was 4.12, and the value of tt (t table) from the table
of t distribution percentile score with df (35) on the degree of significance 0.05
(the probability 0.95) was 1.69. It could be seen that the value of to was higher
than the value of tt. As a result, the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. It meant that
Hi which said the useof Hangman game was effective in teaching vocabulary was
accepted.
Based on the finding of this research, it can be concluded that using
hangman game was effective, and running well in the class situation. By using
hangman game, the students felt more interested and enjoyable in the classrooms
activities; it also could give the students the opportunities to be active in learning
English vocabulary.