THE COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT IN LEARNING ENGLISH THROUGH BINGO GAMES STRATEGY AND MEMORIZING STRATEGY AT SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MTs NEGERI CISAAT SUMBER KAB. CIREBON

Abstract

Dewi Nurbaeti Widianingsih: The Comparative Study between the Students Vocabulary Achievement in Learning English through Bingo Games Strategy and Memorizing Strategy The writer believes that achieving vocabulary is a basic need for using language correctly and properly in communication. Though according to her lifetime experience, she finds that vocabulary has been a problem in English lesson and that it needs improvement in the junior high school. After conducting pre-research, she found that vocabulary problems remained in the seventh grade students of MTs Negeri Cisaat Sumber. One of them is the using of memorizing technique as conventional technique that is used by the teacher during vocabulary teaching and learning. Then she found the possible solution to overcome the vocabulary problems by using bingo games strategy. Therefore, she decided to write the thesis about the topic. This thesis is written to solve problems that appear in the teaching and learning vocabulary so that the students can increase their attention, enthusiasm, and motivation in learning vocabulary, can remember and understand the meaning of words easily, can spell and pronounce words correctly. Then at the end, the students’ vocabulary achievement in learning English can be increased by using bingo games strategy. Vocabulary is the total number of words in language. A bingo game is a game that is very useful for English vocabulary learning. Memorizing is a learner technique in language learning especially vocabulary learning. The method used in this research is quantitative method particularly experimental research. The research was conducted from May 21st until July 20th 2012 at the seventh grade students of MTs Negeri Cisaat Sumber, Cirebon. The research data are collected by using observation, interview and test. The observation includes the objective condition of school and classroom observation to observe the students’ behavior and vocabulary achievement performed by students. The writer interviewed an English teacher about the teaching and learning English at the school. Test includes pre-test and post-test. The data are analyzed through test t formula. The research findings prove three important things. First, the students’ vocabulary achievement in learning English through bingo games technique is 74.25. The second is the students’ vocabulary achievement in learning English through memorizing technique is 65.75. The third, there is positive and significant comparison between students’ vocabulary achievement in learning English through bingo games technique and memorizing technique. It is supported by the absolute value of the obtained test t (5.29) > table t (1.99) or Ha > Ho