THE EFFECTIVENESS OFTHE DOMINO GAMEI IN THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF GERMAN VOCABULARY FOR THE XI GRADES OF SMA NEGERI 6 SURAKARTA

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to find out (1) a significant difference of achievements in the teaching of the German vocabulary among the grade XI students of SMA Negeri 6 Surakarta between students who tought by using domino and those who tought conventional media, and (2) the effectiveness the use of domino card media in learning German vocabulary. This study is a type of quasi experiment research. The variables of this study consists of two variables: the domino as independent variabel, and the German vocabulary as dependent variabel. The research data is obtained from German vocabulary test of students in pre- and posttest. The sampling technique is using simple random sampling. Based on the sampling technique, 32 students of XI SMA IPS 3 are taken as the experiment class and 32 students of XI IPS 2 are taken as the control class. The analysis of this research data using T-test. The results of this research data by using T-test produced the tcount 2,518 was lower than ttable 1,669 with the significance level 0,05. These showed that there were significant difference of achievement in the German vocabulary between the control class and the experiment class. The effectiveness of this research was 6,02%. The average value of experiment class was 38,53 which higher than average value of control class that was 36,44. This it can be concluded that domino is more effective in the teaching for the German vocabulary.

Keywords: Domino games, German vocabular