THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SPELLING BEE GAME IN TEACHING VOCABULARY MASTERY FOR STUDENTS OF TEACHER EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM (PGSD) UNIVERSITAS AUDI INDONESIA IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021

Abstract

The Effectiveness of Using Spelling be Game in Teaching Vocabulary Mastery for students’s Teacher education study program (PGSD) Universitas Audi Indonesia in the Academic Year 2020/2021. In this script the researcher used observes 64 students’ of seventh grade of SMP Dwi Tunggal Tanjung Morawa as the sample. The researcher used pre-test and post-test to find out wheter using game (spelling bee game) is effective or not to improve students’ vocabulary mastery students’s of teacher education study program Universitas Audi Indonesia in the academic year 2020/2021. The students often get difficulities in memorizing the words. The difficulties are on spelling, remembering, and the meaning. This research conduted by using quantitative and qualitative research in processing the data and getting the result. The researcher uses test as the instrument (post-test and post-test). The data from pre-test and post-test were analyzed.  The result shows that the mean score of the post-test experimental group is higher than the mean score of post-test control group (81.3>76.9). It can be concluded that “spelling be game is effective in teaching vocabulary at  teacher education study program (PGSD) Universitas Audi Indonesia in  academic year 2020/2021. By using the game, teaching and learning process is more interesting.