The Effect of Spelling Bee Game on Students' Vocabulary Mastery

This thesis entitled “The Effect of Spelling Bee Game on Students’ Vocabulary Mastery at Second Year Junior Students of Darul ‘Ulum Islamic Boarding School Banda Aceh”. Vocabulary crucially becomes one of the important parts of English which has to be mastered. Without mastering much vocabulary, the students face various obstacles in learning English. The aims of this research are to investigate whether the use of Spelling Bee game can improve students’ vocabulary mastery and to discover students’ responses toward the use of this game in their class. The population of this research was all of the second year junior students of Darul ‘Ulum Islamic Boarding School Banda Aceh. While, the sample was 35 students of class VIII-C. The sample was selected by using random sampling. The research implemented a pre-experimental design. Thus, the techniques of collecting data used in this research are experimental teaching, tests, and questionnaire. The experimental teaching was conducted in five meetings, two meetings for pre-test and post-test and three meetings for treatment of Spelling Bee game. Based on the result of the data analysis, the result of the test (see in chapter four, page 30-31) shows the mean score of pre-test is 45,34 meanwhile the post-test is 63,97.It means that the mean score of the post-test was higher than that ofthe pre-test. It can be concluded that implementing of Spelling Bee game can improve students’ vocabulary mastery. The questionnaire result also shows some possitive responses from the students stating that Spelling Bee game helps them in remembering and memorizing the vocabulary easily and carefully; improves students’ accuracy in pronouncing words; and increases their motivationin learning English.