THE EFFECT OF USING THE GUESS-THE-WORD GAME IN LEARNING VOCABULARY TO SEVENTH GRADERS OF SMP NEGERI 2 JABON

This research discusses the effect of using guess-the-word game as technique toward seventh graders’ in learning vocabulary of SMP Negeri 2 Jabon, Sidoarjo. The aim of the research is to know the effect of guess-the-word to students’ in learning vocabulary. The subject of this research was students of VII-B consist of 34 students. The method used in this research was pre-experimental one group pretest-posttest design. The result of this research showed that there was significant effect of students in learning vocabulary. The data was achieved from a pretest-posttest score using T-test formula. Furthermore, based on statistic calculation with the significance level of 5%, it showed that value of tcounting was higher that ttable (5,48 > 2.03) and Eta Squared shows that the value is 0.47. According to table of Eta Square values criteria, 0.47 means High/ Significant effect. So, the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted which stated that there is significant effect of using guess-the-word toward seventh graders in learning vocabulary written