The Effectiveness of Hangman Game Towards Students’ English Vocabulary Mastery at 7th Grade of MTs Muhammadiyah Wangon Banyumas

One of the problems to majority students of MTs Muhammadiyah Wangon, Banyumas is vocabulary mastery. Therefore, this research was aim to find out the impact of hangman game at 7th grade students’ vocabulary mastery of MTs Muhammadiyah Wangon, Banyumas. This research used quantitative approach with quasi-experimental method, employing the test as the research instrument. The 7th grade of MTs Muhammadiyah Wangon, Banyumas were the participants in this research, with 7B as the experimental class and 7A as the control class. 40 students of 7A and 7B, which consists of 17 and 23 students were participated in answering the pre-test and post-test. To analyze the data, the N-Gain was used by calculated the pre-test and post-test score of each class. From the calculation, it was found that the mean score before implemented the hangman game was 80.87 and after implemented the hangman game, the mean score was increased to 90.66. Moreover, the calculation of N-Gain was obtained average score of 0.61 with quite effective category.