Maria Ulfa (521100053): Improving the Students’ Vocabulary Mastery
Through Spelling Bee Game (A Classroom Action Research to the Eighth Grade
Students of SMP N 21 Pontianak in the Academic Year of 2015/2016).
This research was aimed to find out how Spelling Bee Game improves the
students’ vocabulary mastery, especially in determining the proper meaning and
correct spelling of the words. In this research, the design was a Classroom Action
Research which consisted of two cycles, each of which consisted of four
meetings. Each cycle consisted of four phases; they were planning, acting,
observing and reflecting . Then, the subject of research was the students of class
VIII E of SMP N 21 Pontianak consisted of forty students. This research used
observation and measurement as the technique of data collection, while the tools
of data collection used were observation checklist, field note, and vocabulary test.
Then, the data analyses used in this research were qualitative analysis to analyze
the qualitat ive data and statistic descriptive used to analyze the quantitative data