THE EFFECT OF INTEGRATING SCRABBLE INTO NUMBERED HEADS TOGETHER ON STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT AT GRADE SEVEN OF SMP NEGERI 12 KONAWE SELATAN

Abstract

This study aimed at finding out whether there is a significant effect of integrating scrabble into numbered heads together at grade seven of SMP Negeri 12 Konawe Selatan or not. The research was conducted to answer the following question “Is there any significant effect of integrating scrabble into numbered heads together on students’ vocabulary achievement at grade seven of SMP Negeri 12 Konawe Selatan?”. The hypothesis of this research is “There is a significant effect of integrating scrabble into numbered heads together on students’ vocabulary achievement at grade seven of SMP Negeri 12 Konawe Selatan”. This research used quasi experimental design with population was all grade seven students at SMP Negeri 12 Konawe Selatan in academic year 2018/2019. The samples of this research were class VIIE as the experimental class and VIIB as control class. The experimental class consist of 28 students and control class consist of 26 students. The research instrument was 40 questions of vocabulary test. Collecting the data, the researcher gave pre-test, taught integrating scrabble into numbered heads together, and giving post-test. The result show that students’ mean score in experimental class are 55.21 at pre-test and 75.13 at post-test, while students’ mean score in control class are 55.61 in pre-test and 64.93 in post-test. Based on the calculation of T-test, it shows that the score of tcount = 5.636 is higher than ttable = 2.007 and the pvalue= 0.000 is lower than = 0.05. Therefore, the null hypothesis is rejected and H is accepted. This can be conclude that there is a significant effect of integrating scrabble into numbered heads together on students’ vocabulary achievement at grade seven students of SMP Negeri 12 Konawe Selatan. Keywords: Scrabble, numbered heads together, vocabulary achievement