The Use of word games to teach vocabulary to students at SMP Al-Islah Surabaya

Word Games is one of the appropriate media to teach students’ English vocabulary. The types of word games in this study are scrabble game and pictionary game that were used by the English teacher of SMP Al-Islah Surabaya. The objectives of this study are to investigate the procedure of using word games to teach students’ English vocabulary and to explore students’ responses when using word games as the media to learn English vocabulary at SMP Al-Islah Surabaya. The data of this study was gained by using interview. The subject of this study are one English teacher and five students as the leader of their group at SMP Al-Islah Surabaya. This study indicates that the procedures of word games are divided into pre-activity, while-activity and post-activity. First, in the pre-activity the teacher opened the class, prepared for word games activities, and delivered the objective of the material. Second, in the while-activity the teacher applied word games. The teacher gave the instructions about the rules and the activities of word games. Then, the teacher controlled word games activities and the students learned the vocabulary in English. Third, in the post-activity the teacher asked the students to speak up their difficulties and problems while playing word games activities. After that, the teacher gave feedbacks to the students and the students got reinforcements. The teacher also gave assignments to the students based on what they had learned in word games activities and related to the materials of English lessons. Besides that, the students showed positive responses like more active and joyful in following the word games activities.