THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING WORDWALL MEDIA TO TEACH VOCABULARY OF THE EIGHTH-GRADE STUDENTS AT SMP N 1 PURWOREJO IN THE SCHOOL YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

The objective of this research is to find out whether teaching vocabulary by using wordwall media is effective for Junior High School students or not. This research is an experimental research which has been conducted on the eighth-grade students of SMP N 1 Purworejo in the school year 2012/2013. In this research the researcher took 62 students as the samples. The researcher took class VIIIE, which consists of 31 students as experimental group, and class VIIIF, which consists of 31 students as control group. The test consists of 25 items as instrument of the research. It is a multiple choices reading test. The researcher had given pre-test before she taught the students vocabulary by using wordwall media, and the researcher gave post-test after she had taught the students vocabulary by using wordwall media. Stasistically, the researcher analyzed the data by using t-test. The result of this study shows that there is significant effect of using wordwall media to teach the students vocabulary, since it was  found that the result of t-value is 5.502, the degree freedom (df)  is 60 and the level significance of t-test table is 5% (0.05) It shows 1.671. It is proven by the result of t-test sample related that the t-value is higher than t-table.

(Keywords: Effectiveness, Wordwall, Media, Teaching,Vocabulary)