IMPROVING WRITING ABILITY IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT USING VOCABULARY COLOUR GAMES FOR EIGHTH GRADE IN SMPN 12 MALANG

Vocabulary is one important things in teaching and learning language especially at the beginning of learning language. Vocabulary colour game is an ideal method of helping students improve their vocabulary skills without boring them. It can help students not only enjoy and entertained with the language they learn, but also practice it. The purpose of this study is to improve the students motivation using Vocabulary Colour Games at SMPN 12 Malang. This research was conducted by using Classroom Action Research (CAR) design. The instruments of this study were observation and test. The subject of this research was the students of VIII C of SMPN 12 Malang, there were 32 students. Based on the result of this study, it has been found that students are getting easier to remember the vocabulary by using vocabulary colour games. Students are able to find the word easier by using vocabulary colour games. Vocabulary colour games is able to enchance students in vocabulary, because the data are collected in Cycle 1 will be compared with the data of Cycle 2. It is done in order to know whether applying the vocabulary colour game is improving students’ vocabulary or not