The Effectiveness of Spelling Bee To Students' Vocabulary Mastery At Second Grade Of Junior High School

Dewanti, Aura Syahida Putri (2022) The Effectiveness of Spelling Bee To Students' Vocabulary Mastery At Second Grade Of Junior High School. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Vocabulary is a basic of learning English, because it is one of essential elements in English. Wilkis as cited in Thorbury states that “Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed”. From that statements it can be conclude that mastering vocabulary makes students easier to learn four English skills. Based on interview with the English teacher in SMP Negeri 2 Banyuwangi, most of students have difficulty in learning English because they are not mastering vocabulary. There are many ways to increase vocabulary of the students, and in this research the researcher used spelling bee game.
The research question: “Is there any significant effect of spelling bee to students’ vocabulary mastery at second grade of junior high school?”. The research aims: to investigate whether or not there is effect of spelling bee to students’ vocabulary at second grade of junior high school.
This research uses quantitative approach with an pre-experimental research design, one group pretest and posttest. The sample of this research 32 students. This research uses Content Validity which is tested by comparing the contents of the instrument with the syllabus. The istrument of this research was vocabulary test used in pretest and posttest to collect the data. After collecting the data, the researcher analyzed data by using paired sample T-Test to know the differences before students get the spelling bee and after get the spelling bee.
The finding of this research showed that the average score of the posttest is 90,37 and the average score of the pretest is 71,68. It showed that the post-test is higher than the pretest. Then, the result of the paired sample T-test using SPSS 25.0 showed that the Tcount is -9,541 with significant 2-tailed = 0,000<0,05 and the Ttable is 2,750. Consequently, the alternative hypothesis is accepted and the null hypothesis is rejected. It can be concluded that spelling bee can improve students’ vocabulary.
Keywords: Students’ Vocabulary Mastery, Spelling Bee

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