THE IMPLEMENTATION OF KAHOOT APPLICATION TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY AT THE FIRST GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA KRISTEN SAUMLAKI

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Kahoot application is an interactive learning platform designed to increase students’ engagement in learning through gamification elements. In learning English, Vocabulary is one of the fundamental problems because limited Vocabulary can hinder students’ ability to speak, read and write. Besides that,  at the first grade students of SMA Kristen Saumlaki who have difficulty in mastering vocabulary caused by a lack of vocabulary, minim of motivation, encouragement from within themselves or the environment, not being used to using new Vocabulary in exploring ideas and learning methods that are not interesting and interactive. so that, this research aims to find out whether the implementation of Kahoot application can improve students’ Vocabulary at the first grade students of SMA Kristen Saumlaki and analysis students opinion. This research used qualitative method with the Classroom Action Research(CAR), the subject of this research were class X-1 with total number of students are 27. This research was conducted in one cycle consist of the planning, acting, observing and reflecting stages. Data were collected through observation, interviews, documentation and test(pre-test and post-test). The results shown that students more enthusiastic and motivated in learning vocabulary through Kahoot application. It can be seen in the students result of pre-test was (50) and post-test cycle I was (100). With this result indicates that there were significant difference between before and after treatment. From the data it can be known that the results score of research more than KKM (70). Based on this result researcher can concluded that, the implementation of Kahoot application to improve students Vocabulary at the first grade students of SMA Kristen Saumlaki is effective and it can be an alternative interesting and interactive learning media to increase another skills of students such as listening, reading, writing, speaking and motivation of learning English.