Jeclin Suita Merzi.2021. The Effectiveness of Teaching Vocabulary through Game Talking Stick at SMPN 3 Wotu. (supervised by Hafirah Patang and Fibry Indira Lisanty AD)

The researcher aims to determine whether the use of talking stick games is effective to improve students’ vocabulary or not. The population in this researcher
are the students of class VII.3 SMPN 3 Wotu. The number of population in this
research is 184 students’. This research uses simple random sampling as a
technique to get the sample. The number of sample of this research is 24
students’. The results of this research showed that the mean value of the post-test
was 82.29 which is higher than the pre-test (45.41). It means that there was a
significant difference between pre-test and post-test. Besides that, it is suppported
by comparing the results of the t-test where the p-value is smaller than the
significant level (α) (0.00<0.05). Thus, H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. Based
on the results of the research, the researcher concluded that the talking stick game
is effective to improve students’ vocabulary..