Reason for Choosing the Topic
Based on the conditions above, the writer thinks that there are some possibilities of factors of those problems were drawn.
1. The students‟ laziness to find out the meanings of words in the dictionary.
They refer doing the easy way by asking their teacher the meaning of the difficult words. It is about students‟ character. When there was an instruction
to do some exercises, students prefer to ask their teacher what should they do in that exercise than look up in the dictionary.
2. The students always want to learn vocabulary by doing interesting activities
which are almost similar to play games. They more interest to learn through play than learn monotonously. Game are associated with a feeling of
happiness. Students will be attracted by palying a game than listening to their teacher. It can be altenative for students to study by playing a game.
3. The students are bored with the traditional method which is done by their
teacher in language teaching. Most teachers in the school use traditional or conventional method to teach their students. For instance, teaching and doing
exercises by textbook, and there is not much interaction between teacher and students. It makes students get bored and do not pay attention at their teacher.
4. There is not certain time allocation for vocabulary teaching and learning in
the learning process in the classrooms. English learning process in the class is only once in a week. So, the students should have another time to learn and
increase their vocabulary‟s mastery. According to the facts above, one of alternative techniques for teaching
vocabulary should be implemented. It is a game technique. The application of
game technique in learning process may make better learning process. The writer will use texttwist game for teaching vocabulary in the classroom. Texttwist is a
game for personal computer which allows people to improve their knowledge about vocabulary by twisting some letters.
The writer will give the test to the tenth grade students of SMA Islam Ta‟allumul Huda Bumiayu. The tenth grade students are appropriate students,
because they are in the beginning of Senior High School, so they should be supplied by many of vocabularies.