Abstract
The purpose of this research is to discover the level of EFL students’ perception of online game Mobile Legends in their vocabulary development. The researcher used questionnaire and interview as the instrument to collect the data and took 20 respondents for the questionnaire and 5 interviewees that are taken from 8th semester students of English Education Department on 2018/2019 academic year in Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto. This study got a positive result with 74%, therefore can be categorized as positive perception. Moreover, it was supported by the interview result where the interviewees agreed that their vocabulary knowledge is expanding when playing Mobile Legends.
Highlights
The purpose of this research is to discover the level of EFL students’ perception of online game Mobile Legends in their vocabulary development
Word or can be called as vocabulary is one of the important parts when it comes to learning a language, because word and language cannot be separated from each other
This notion is in line with Lin et al (2013) who stated that “vocabulary is an integrated part of a language.”
Summary
The purpose of this research is to discover the level of EFL students’ perception of online game Mobile Legends in their vocabulary development. This study got a positive result with 74%, can be categorized as positive perception based on Likert’s scale In learning English, vocabulary has an important role to convey what the speaker wants to say, as stated by David Wilkins cited by Alqahtani (2015) “...while without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed”. Vocabulary learning is really needed if one wants to understand foreign language, there are many ways to learn vocabulary It can be learnt from game, and it is proved by some researches that will be stated later. It is the same as Ahmadi & Munawar (2005) who stated that the purposes of playing game are to get fun and entertainment
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