This study was aimed at improving students’ vocabulary mastery
through Word Association Game. It was a classroom action research (CAR)
which conducted to the students of VIII A of MTs Kepadangan Clapar in
academic year 2012/2013 as the subject of this study. The population of the
class was 21 students. It was done in June 2013.
The writer did collaboration with the English teacher in the class
investigated. The CAR was carried out based on Kemmis and Mc Taggart
design. The writer took two cycles with two actions in each cycle. Each
cycle consisted of planning, acting, reflecting and evaluating. The writer
apllied both qualitative data and quantitative data. The qualitative data were
taken from observation result of teacher’s activity, field notes, and
documentation, while the quantitative data were taken from vocabulary
score, observation result of students activity, and also questionnaire.
The result of the study showed that there was a segnificant
improvement in students’s vocabulary mastery after implementing the CAR
through word Association Game in improving students’ vocabulary mastery.
The average score of the students in vocabulary mastery was 5.27 in pre-test.
The average score of the students improved by 53.15% in Cycle 1 and
improved again to 70.76% in Cycle 2. The improvement also happened to
the students’s activity. It was 59.5% in Cycle 1 and improved to 90.1% in
Cycle 2. The students’s positive feedback of the implementation of Word
Association Game could be seen from questionnaire. The students who
answered “ Yes” was 84.51% of 21 students.