Using Scrabble Game As Extracurricular Activity to Support Students’ English Vocabulary Learning

This thesis is entitled “Using Scrabble Game as Extracurricular Activities To Support Students’ English Vocabulary Learning”. The purpose of this study are to find out difference score between the students’ vocabulary mastery before and after being taught by using scrabble game and investigate students’ responses in implementing scrabble game technique. The study was conducted in the second grade at SMP Negeri 1 Banda Aceh, involving 64 students as the sample divided into two classes, the students’ selected rendomly. The sample of this research were VIII-7 consists 32 of students’ as experimental class and VIII-8 consists 32 of students’ as control class. The research used test and questionnaire to collect the data. The result of this research showed that scrabble game support English vocabulary leaerning. It was proved that based on the data from students’ t-score of experimental and control class. It was shown that the students t-score of experimental class higher than control class, t-score of experimental class is 8.39 and control class is 1.10 as well as ttable at significant level of α = 0,05 was 1.69. Therefore, the experimental class Tscore > Ttable, and the control class Tscore < Ttable. In others word, based on the students’ responses in questionnaire, they agree that scrabble game is suitable approach applied to support English vocabulary learning.