THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING WORDWALL TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY IN RECOUNT TEXT AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF SMP N 26 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2022/2023

Abstract

Teaching and learning activities in the classroom cannot be separated from information and communication technology (ICT). Wordwall is one of the learning media that is closely related to the ICT. The problems faced by junior high school students are, among others, lack of vocabulary mastery. To overcome these problems, the researcher applied Wordwall media. In addition, the purpose of this study is to determine whether or not the use of Wordwall media is effective in teaching vocabulary to grade VIII students of SMPN 26 Purworejo in the 2022/2023 academic year. This research uses non-equivalent control group design with 192 students as its population. By employing purposive sampling, the researcher takes 64 students coming from two classes as the sample. The data were taken on March 10th 2023 until May 15th 2023. The technique of the data collection is by giving pre-test and post-test. Meanwhile, the technique of data analysis used descriptive analysis and inferential analysis. From the computation, it is known that the result of post-test shows that the mean score of experiment group is 66.72 categorized good and the mean score of control group is 59.06 belongs to category sufficient. To see whether the hypothesis is accepted or rejected, the researcher uses t-test through IBM SPSS 25. The result of two sided significance value is 0.000. Based on the 0.05 significance level, the computation shows that two sided significance value is lower than 0.05 (0.000<0.05). Therefore, it can be concluded that using Wordwall in Recount Text is Effective.