Abstract
Vocabulary mastery is important to acquire a language. Learning vocabulary has several barriers that slow down the progress. Minecraft application is used as a new method of learning English vocabulary. The goal of this research was to investigate whether there is a significance positive effect after used Minecraft application on students’ vocabulary mastery for 5th grade elementary students. A quasi-experimental method was used in this research with 63 students of SDN Poris Plawad 1 Tangerang, which separated into an experimental group (n=31) and a control group (n=32). The results revealed that Minecraft has better score result than the conventional method. Besides, the students’ behavior also resulted to be better than the conventional method. The survey also revealed that the students agreed that Minecraft was making the learning easier, less boring, less stressful and happier. However, the results could not be generalized due to the small sample taken in this research.
Highlights
Language is an important aspect in human civilization
The language that one wishes to learn after his mother language is termed second language (L2)
Many researchers agreed that vocabulary acts as a core, central to the language and one of the most important aspect of language (e.g. Nikoopour & Kazemi, 2014; Salehi, 2017; Alqahtani, 2015)
Summary
Language is an important aspect in human civilization. It acts as the foundation for all learning and core content for children to know (Pandey, 2013) It is one of the human products that plays the role of the messages carrier from the sender to the receiver. The test resulted mean score 41 & 40 for experimental and control group respectively It indicated that the students’ vocabulary mastery in SDN Poris Plawad 1 grade 5 was low prior to this research conducted. In order to obtain the third research question’s answer, the writer conducted pretest, treatment and posttest It resulted that Minecraft as the treatment of learning English vocabulary was better than the conventional one. The students who passed the Minimum Criteria of Mastery was 5 out of 32 students, which was 15% of the total amount of the students as stated before This indicated that using Minecraft as a media for learning and mastering English vocabulary especially for the 5 grade students of SDN Poris Plawad 1 outperformed the conventional method as the percentage of the KKM achievement was more than twice higher.
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