THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING MIME GAME FOR TEACHING ENGLISH VOCABULARY AT THE THIRD-GRADE STUDENTS OF SD IT KHOIRU UMMAH KUTOARJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2022/2023

Abstract

This study aims to find out whether the use mime game for teaching English vocabulary at the third grade students of SD IT Khoiru Ummah Kutoarjo in the academic year of 2022/2023 is effective or not. This study is quantitative research which used pre-experimental design. The subjects of this study are 14 students who were taken from third-grade students of SD IT Khoiru Ummah. This study uses test as instrument to collect the data. The technique of the data collection is by giving pre-test and posttest. Meanwhile, the technique of data analysis used descriptive analysis and inferential analysis. The result of the pre-test score is 69.29 which belong to sufficient category, and the result of the post-test score is 93.57 which belong to excellent category. To see whether the hypothesis is accepted or rejected, the researcher uses t-test through IBM SPSS 16.0. The result of two sided significance value is 0.000. Based on the 0.05 significance level, the computation shows that two significance value is lower than 0.05 (0.000>0.05). Therefore, it can be concluded that using mime game is effective for teaching English vocabulary to the third-grade students of SD IT Khoiru Ummah Kutoarjo in the academic year of 2022/2023.