The Effectiveness of Circle Game for Teaching English Vocabulary
An Experimental Study of MTs Ma’arif NU 1 Jatilawang at VII Grade Students in the
Academic Year 2015/2016
By
Efa Nurhayati
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The aim of this study was to find out the effectiveness of circle game in teaching
English vocabulary at the seventh grade students of MTs Ma‟rif NU 1 Jatilawang in academic
year 2015/2016.
The study was conducted by using quasi experimental. These participants of this
study were the seventh grade of MTs Ma‟arif NU 1 Jatilawang. There were two classes by
which class D was used as the experimental class and class E was used as the control class.
Test was used in collecting the data of this study namely pre test and post test. The test
consisted of multiple choices. Based on the computation, t test result was 2.354 and the result
of r table at the significant level 1.670 with the degree of freedom 62 was. The calculation of
t-test with t-table was concluded that t-test was higher than t-table (2354>1.670). Based on
the study result, it is showed that Circle Game was effective for teaching vocabulary at the
seventh grade of MTs Ma‟arif NU 1 Jatilawang in academic year 2015/2016.