EFFECTIVENESS OF USING CHARADES GAME TOWARD STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY

This research aims to find out the effectiveness and significance different of using Charades game on students’ vocabulary mastery at SMP Muhammadiyah Ahmad Dahlan Metro. Charades game is the activity that players try to guess a word phrase and their teammates. Charade game is a kind of game in which words are represented in pantomime. This research used experimental research. The subjects of this research are the eighth-grade students at SMP Muhammadiyah Ahmad Dahlan Metro academic year 2020. There are 20 students of the control group which used cluster random sampling techniques and 20 students of the experimental group. The research instrument used to collect the data in this research was test and observation. From the two classes, the experimental and control group, the measurement shows that the improvement of vocabulary mastery in the experimental group is higher than the control group. The result of the pretest score shows that the average score of the experimental group and the control group are 61,6and 66,6. From the score of both groups, the result shows that the control group is better than the experimental group. Then, the result of the posttest in the experimental group is higher than the control group; the average scores are 74,2for experimental group and 68,8 for the control group. It can be concluded that there are effectiveness and significant differences in using Charades game in students’ vocabulary mastery.