The power of games in teaching vocabulary to the first grade students of Islamic School Al-Azhar Syifa Budi Surakarta

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Yuni Hariyanti - C9306153 - Fak. Sastra dan Seni Rupa

ABSTRACT This report discusses the power of games in teaching vocabulary that is written according to the writer’s experience during doing the job training in this school. This report is aimed at showing how far game can be a powerful method for the teacher to teach vocabulary. The writer explains the power of game in the process of teaching vocabulary based on the teaching activity that has been done by the writer. In order to get some information and data, the writer took some steps in collecting data of this report by observing, interviewing, and writing all activities that the writer had from the job training. The result shows that game is a suitable method to be applied in the first grade class especially for teaching vocabulary. Games are proven as powerful method because it can be the way for students to learn English unconsciously. They had fun when having learning activity since they enjoyed doing this much.