The Effectiveness of Using Team Games Tournament (TGT) Technique in Teaching Vocabulary on Seventh Grade Students of Widya Manggala Junior High School East Jakarta, in 2015/2016, Academic Year

fitrisia, s.e., m.si., ak., ca. ; ir. tukirin, mm.; dr. tri wintolo apoko, m.pd.; heni novitasari, m.pd.;

INTAN IRAWATI. NIM: 1101065155. The Effectiveness of Using Team Games Tournament (TGT) Technique in Teaching Vocabulary on Seventh Grade Students of Widya Manggala Junior High School East Jakarta, in 2015/2016, Academic Year. Paper: The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR HAMKA, Jakarta, 2015.
The objective of this research is to know whether Team Games Tournament (TGT) Technique is effective or not in teching vocabulary on Seventh Grade Students of Widya Manggala Junior High School East Jakarta, in 2015/2016, Academic Year. The writer used an experimental method in this research. The population of this research is the students of WIDYA MANGGALA Junior High School East Jakarta on the seventh grade. The samples were taken from two classes on the seventh grade, VII - B as a control class whether VII - A as an experiment class. Each class consists in 31 students. The data got from post-test after being given treatment on the experiment class. The data must be analyzed by pre-requisite test. Pre-requisite test using normality test and homogeneity test. After the data can be said normal and homogeny it must be tested by t-test formula to know the research hypothesis. Based on the result of the experiment using TGT Technique in teaching vocabulary, it is found that the (t observed) 8.10 from df (72) on degree of significance level the (t table) is 1.67. Because to > tt, it means that Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. It can be concluded that the use of TGT Technique in teaching vocabulary is effective. The research findings are expected to be useful for the students to help them improve their English in vocabulary. Therefore, TGT Technique can be used as an alternative technique for the English teacher especially for the junior high school teacher to attract the students’ interest in learning vocabulary.