| dc.description.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
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vocabulary achievement through Guessing and Speculating games with pictures.to
improve the students’ vocabulary achievement. | en_US |
