The Use of Word Clap Game to Improve Students’ Vocabulary

Abstract

Teaching English vocabulary to Junior High School should be more interesting and joyful.
Teachers can use a strategy in teaching vocabulary in order to attract students’ attention and interest.
The objectives of this study are to find out whether “Word Clap Game” can be used as strategy in
teaching vocabulary at the eighth grade students of SMPN 4 Kepanjen and to find out whether the
use of “Word Clap Game” can improve the students’ vocabulary mastery. Vocabulary is the one of the
English components which has to be mastered and acquired by students in learning English as a
foreign language. In this study, I used Word Clap Game as a strategy for teaching vocabulary in
Announcement and Short Message topic to the eighth grade students of SMPN 4 Kepanjen. An action
research was conducted in this study. The subjects of this study were 31 eighth grade students of
SMPN 4 Kepanjen in the academic year 2022/2023. The writer got the data from observation, test
and interview. According to the analyses, on the previous test on Recount topic when the teacher
hasn’t given the treatment the mean is 71.2, while after the treatment the mean is 79.8. Therefore,
the students’ vocabulary mastery is improved by 8.6.