THE EFFECT OF USING GUESSING AND SPECULATING GAMES WITH PICTURES ON VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT OF GRADE 8 STUDENTS AT SMP NEGERI 1 ROWOKANGKUNG LUMAJANG

Abstract

Vocabulary is one of language components in English for Junior High School that must be mastered first by the students because vocabulary is the basic thing in learning language. The students generally have difficulty in learning English, especially in vocabulary. Their problems are usually caused by their ability in memorizing the English words they have learnt because the English words are quite different from their mother tongue. Therefore, the English teacher is expected to be able to cover the students’ problems in vocabulary. One of the strategies that can be used and applied by the English teacher is playing Guessing and Speculating Games with Single Picture in teaching vocabulary. Guessing and Speculation games are games in which the students guess and observe some kind of information from the pictures that the teacher has given. The information includes words, phrases, and the location of an object. Single pictures are pictures of single object such as pictures of person, object, and action. In this technique, the teacher divided the class into some groups. The students should guess from the clues. Starting from the first clue, it is the most difficult to guess. The second clue is easier than the first one. And if the second one cannot be guessed, the teacher gives the third clue and so on. This research was conducted to know whether or not there was a significant effect of using Guessing and Speculating Games with single pictures on vocabulary achievement of grade 8 students at SMP Negeri 1 Rowokangkung Lumajang. The respondents of this research were grade 8 students of SMP Negeri 1 Rowokangkung Lumajang that were determined by using cluster random sampling by lottery. The xv vocabulary achievement through Guessing and Speculating games with pictures.to improve the students’ vocabulary achievement.