TEACHING ENGLISH VOCABULARY TO THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS USING CLASSROOM SIMULATION GAME

ABSTRACT Arfian, Akhmar 2019. Teaching English Vocabulary to the First Year Students Using Classroom Simulation Game. Thesis S1. English Department, Faculty of Languages and Literature, State University of Makassar. (Under the supervision of A.Muliati M and Ahmad Talib) The objective of this research is to find out whether or not the use of classroom simulation game significantly increases the vocabulary mastery of the first-year students of SMP Negeri 6 Labakkang Labscool UNM. The research design used a pre-experimental design with one group pretest and posttest design. The design involved one group that is given a pretest and then exposed to a treatment and post-test. The researcher got the students’ score on the post-test was higher than the pre-test, in which the mean score of the post-test was (74.31), while in the pre-test only (49.07). So, the score from hypothesis testing was smaller than 0.05 which was 0.00