The Effectiveness of Online Game on Students Vocabulary Enrichment

Abstract

This article tells readers about the effectiveness of using online game on students' English vocabulary enrichment. This is a quasi-experimental research which gives different treatment to experimental class and control class. Online game was used in the experimental class and conventional teaching media was used in the control class. The populations of the study were all the second semester students of non-English Department of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Jambi. The samples were taken by using cluster sampling technique. Test and non-test were used as the instruments of collecting data. The results of the study show that: (1) the students who were taught by using online game had better result on English vocabulary enrichment than the students who were taught by using conventional teaching media. (2) The students who were taught by using online game gave positive response to online game as a various media in learning English vocabulary, so this media can motivate the students for learning vocabulary in the class and out of the class.

The Influence of Online Game Mobile Legends in Students’ Vocabulary Mastery at Eleventh Grade of Vocational High School Number 1 Jambi City

“…Online games is a technology which can be connected to multiplayer. Based on Yelia and Efriza (2021) online games are games that can be played through an internet connection or other available network devices. Online games are ubiquitos on modern gaming platforms, including PCs, consoles, and mobile devices (smartphone).…”