The main purpose of the present study is to find out the effectiveness of
Scattergories in teaching vocabulary to young learners. This study was conducted
in SMP N 7 Cilacap in the academic year 2012/2013. There were 68 participants
involved in the research who were divided into two classes; control class and
experimental class. Both classes were taught to the same learning content,
however, the experimental class received the treatment regarding Scattergories
and the control class was taught by conventional technique. In collecting the data,
it was used tests those were pre-test and post-test. Pre-test was given before the
treatment and post-test was given after the treatment.
The result of the t-test analysis showed that the experimental students who
used Scattergories had a better performance than the control students who did not
use it. The result of the t-test value was 4.305 with the t-table value (1.669), which
showed at the significance level with df = 66, so it means that the t-test value was
higher than t-table (4.305 > 1.669). Based on the study result, the study showed
that Scattergories was effective for teaching vocabulary at the VII grade students
of SMP N 7 Cilacap in the academic year 2012/2013.