The Effect of Wordwall on Elementary Students’ Vocabulary Mastery
Abstract
Although many media have been used to acquire English vocabulary in classroom learning, many students still need to develop their English vocabulary. Therefore, the study was conducted with the aim of finding out whether it has an influence in improving the mastery of English vocabulary by utilizing Wordwall. This research employed quantitative methods with a pre-experimental design and involved 20 grade 5 students from a public elementary school in Central Java, Indonesia as participants. Pre test and post test scores were used to measure students’ English vocabulary acquisition. The data were analysed using SPSS 25 with the Wilcoxon signed rank test. The results showed that the average pre test score was 14.5, while the average post-test score increased substantially to 84.25 after the use of Wordwall. The Wilcoxon signed rank test produced an Asymp. Sig value of 0.0 (p < 0.05), on the pre and post test scores there were many statistical changes. This means that the use of Wordwall had a significant positive effect on students’ English vocabulary mastery. Based on these findings, it was concluded that Wordwall could be used as an effective alternative learning media in the classroom.
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