The Effectiveness of Monopoly Quest Game to Enhance Vocabulary Mastery in Junior HIgh School
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This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of the Monopoly Quest Game to enhance students’ vocabulary mastery in junior high school. This research employed a quantitative approach using a quasi-experimental design. The study involved 44 seventh-grade students from MTs Matholi’ul Huda Troso. To measure students’ vocabulary knowledge before and after the treatment, pre-test and post-test scores were collected and analyzed. Normality and homogeneity tests were applied to analyze the data, and an independent-samples t-test was applied to test the hypothesis. The findings revealed that students in the experimental group achieved better results than those in the control group, as the significance value obtained from the t-test was below 0.05. In addition, the improvement in the experimental group was higher, with a mean score increase of 30.93, compared to 10.91 in the control group. These findings suggest that the Monopoly Quest Game is effective in enhancing students’ vocabulary mastery at the junior high school level.
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