THE EFFECT OF MEMRISE APPLICATION ON STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY
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The purpose of this study is to describe the use of Memrise application on students' vocabulary mastery, to find out the effect of using Memrise application on students' vocabulary mastery.This research uses the True-Experimental method, which uses an experimental class and a control class. The population in this study were X grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Bulakamba in the academic year 2021/2022 with a total of 432 students, while the samples in this study were class X 9 as the experimental group and class X-11 as the control group, the total sample size was 71 students with simple random sampling technique. This study used vocabulary test instruments. Researchers gave 40 questions for pretest and posttest to both samples.The data collected in this study were analysed using SPSS version 26, the results obtained the average posttest results of the experimental group of 77.57 outperformed the control group of 75.64. Based on the results of hypothesis testing using paired sample t-test, the significance value is 0.000 which means <0.05, meaning that Ha in this study is accepted. This can be interpreted that there is a significant difference between the experimental group and the control group. In conclusion, the use of memrise application as learning media has a positive effect on students' vocabulary mastery.This study suggests teachers are also advised to use new techniques and activities in English learning to increase students' interest by using appropriate media to support English learning.
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