This
study
was aimed
to find out
the
effectiveness of
Circle Game
in
teaching English vocabulary
.
This
study was
conduct
ed from 30th of April until
28th of June 2013
at SMP Negeri 4 Purbalingga in academic year 2012/2013
. This
research
was
quasi
experimental research
.
The students involved in the research
were 60 students which were divided into two classes. VII H was as ex
perimental
class which was taught by
Circle Game
and VII G was as control class which was
taught by conventional way. The research used pre
-test that was given before
doing the treatment
, questionnaire
and post
-test that was given after doing the
treatment
for collecting data.
The test given was in the form of objective test,
especially mu
ltiple choices and
gap filling
. In analyzing the data, t
-test was used
to obtai
n the result of the treatment.
After giving the treatment, the mean score
result of experime
ntal class increased to 29, while the control class was only
11.67.
Based on the computation, the result of t
-test was
4.4805
while the value of
t-table was
1.6715
with df
5
8. It meant that the result of t
-test was higher than the
value of t
-table (4.4805
>
1.6715
) which showed
that
hypothesis made was
accept
ed.
It was also supported by satisfying result of the questionnaire which
showed the percentage for all the indicators were above 75% and the average was
83.82%.
Thus
, it
could
be concluded
that
Circle
Game
was effective for teaching
English
vocabulary
.