THE INFLUENCE OF SPELLING BEE GAME ON THE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGLISH VOCABULARY AT THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 1 SURANENGGALA CIREBON

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IIN INAYATULLAH :“THE INFLUENCE OF SPELLING BEE GAME ON THE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGLISH VOCABULARY AT THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 1 SURANENGGALA CIREBON”udSpelling Bee game is one of the vocabulary game that can be applied in teaching and learning process. It is use for memorizing, pronuncing, and improving students‘ vocabulary and so forth. Vocabulary is the most important element in learning foreign language especially in English vocabulary. The seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Suranenggala Cirebon feel difficult in pronuncing English vocabulary moreover most of them don‘t understand the meaning of the word. Their luck of vocabulary stucks students‘ abiity to enhance their passion to learn English especially in speaking skill.udThe aims of the research are to find out how far the students‘ achievement in English vocabulary before applying Spelling Bee game at the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Surenenggala Cirebon and to find out how far the students‘ achievement in English vocabulary after applying Spelling Bee game at the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Surenenggala Cirebon.udThe method of the resarch in writing this thesis is using a quantitative method. It refers to the systematic empirical investigation of the research phenomena via statiscal or mathematical techniques. The object of quantitative research is to develop and employ mathematical model. The population in this thesis is all of the students at the seventh grade of SMP Negeri 1 Suranenggala Cirebon totally 336 students. All of students at the seventh grade consist of eight classes. And the researcher took a sample from one class namely VII B totally 43 students.udThe result of the research is known that mean of the students‘ post test (75.69) is bigger than mean of the students‘ pre-test (37.67). The influence of students‘ achievement in English vocabulary can be known by using t-test at the significance level 0.05, is gotten tvalue is bigger than ttable, that is tvalue = 2.18 > ttable =1.68. it means that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected. It shows that there is influence of Spelling Bee game on the students‘ achievement in English vocabulary.ud(58430710)