The aim of this research was to find
out the effectiveness of Sentence Race
game for teaching vocabulary at the grade seventh students of SMP Negeri 1
Kalibagor in academic year 2015/2016
. This research used
experimental research
involving thirty two students of class VII B as exp
erimental cl
ass and thirty two
students of class VIIG as control class. Sentence Race game was applied in
experimental class while control class was not given any special treatment. Test
was used
to
collect the data
, namely pre
-
test and post
-
test
. After data was taken
, it
was analyzed using t
-
test formula. Based on the t
-
test computation, the result of t
-
test
computation
was 8.315, and the value of t
-
table at the level significance 0.05
with degree of freedom 62 was 1.669. Thus, the result of t
-
test
computation
was
hig
her than the value of t
-
table (8.315 > 1.669
), and it meant
that the hypothesis
was accepted. Therefore, it could be concluded that Sentence Race game was
effective for
teaching vocabulary at the seven
th grade students of SMP N
egeri
1
Kalibagor in academic
year 2015/2016.