A Comparative Study Between The Use Of Wordscapes And Word Trip Applications On Students’ Vocabulary Mastery

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find if there was significant difference between the students taught by using Wordscapes and the students taught by using Word Trip Applications on students’ Vocabulary Mastery. The method that was used quantitative method. The design of this study was causal-comparative study. This study was conducted in SMP Swasta Imelda Medan. The number of the sample of the study was 60 students of eighth grade. VIII-B was as the first experimental class (X1) that was taught by Wordscapes Application and VIII-C was the second experimental class (X2) that was taught by using Word Trip Application. Each class consisted of 30 students. The instrument of this study was test. The tests were divided into two, there were pre-test and post-test. The data that were obtained from the tests were analyzed by using SPSS statistic 25 program. The result of the study showed that the mean score of post-test in First Experimental class (X1) was 75.67 while the mean score of post-test in Second Experimental class (X2) was 80.63. Based on the criteria of hypothesis test that if sig. 2 tailed (p) was lower than alpha (α) 0.05, then Ho (Null Hypothesis) was rejected and Ha (Alternative Hypothesis) was accepted. In this study, the result of sig. 2 tailed was 0.057 and it proved that p <α.