THE EFFECTIVENESS USING PICTIONARY GAME TOWARD STUDENTS VOCABULARY MASTERY

The purpose of this research is to know whether the use of Pictionary game effectives on students vocabulary mastery of class IV students at SDN Gajah 2 who found it difficult to mastering vocabulary and have a low score in vocabulary learning. The grand theory of the research is based on the Game as an Education Theory by Harmer and Lely. The technique used in this research is Pictionary game. In this research, Researcher used a one-group pretest-posttest experimental research design that was conducted in 4 meetings. In this research, Researcher use research instrument in the form of observation and test (pretest and posttest) to collect data with count of participant is 14 students. Based on the finding of this research demonstrate that Pictionary game is effective on students vocabulary mastery, this is proven because the results of observation showed that the teacher has implemented the vocabulary learning process using the Pictionary game well and as long as students were given this treatment students showed positive responses and students abilities progressed well in each meeting. Meanwhile the results of test show that there is a difference in score between the pretest and posttest results. The results of this test, then are tested using the paired sample t-test and show that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted because the T-count > T table which 2.810 > 2.160 with significance effect 0.05 means that the Pictionary game is effective toward students vocabulary masteryof SDN Gajah 2 students.