The Effectiveness of Using Bingo Game in Teaching Vocabulary of the Eighth Grade Students at the SMP N 15 Purworejo in the Academic Year 2016/2017

Abstract

Vocabulary is one of English components that must be taught to the students because
vocabulary has an important role for all language skills. But in teaching vocabulary, the
students have difficulties in memorizing new words; so they lack of vocabulary. The
objective of this research is to find out whether there is any effectiveness of using bingo
game in teaching vocabulary to eight grade students of SMP N 15 Purworejo in academic
year 2016/2017.This research belongs to experimental research. This research was
carried out at SMP N 15 Purworejo. The total number of the population is 160 students.
This research used 64 sample. To collect the data, the researcher used pre-test and posttest as the treatment. Then, the data result analyzed by using t-test formula.The result
of the mean of score of post test of experimental group is higher than control group
(80.31 > 66.88). In addition, the result of t-value is 5.57. Then, the researcher consluts
the critical value on the t-table using 5% (0.05) alpha level significance and the degree of
freedom is 1.697. It means that that the use of bingo game in teaching vocabulary of at
the grade at the eighth grade students of SMP N 15 Purworejo in the academic year of
2016/2017 is effective.