English Learning Strategies Using Educandy Games In High School Pamekasa

Abstract

Learning English is said to be a complicated subject and is of little interest to students. Based on the results of the study, it was found that there were still students who had not mastered English vocabulary, so in practice, it was necessary to apply interesting and fun learning media so that students were interested in learning English. This is what prompted researchers to apply learning media with the educational game Educandy to increase English vocabulary. The research was conducted to find out how to apply the Educandy educational game and find out the results that have been implemented to increase English vocabulary in students. The subject of this research is class X students in Pamekasan. The method used is descriptive qualitative method. The results of this study show that the application of the Educandy educational game is used as a learning medium to increase the English vocabulary of class X students in Pamekasan. Based on the results of direct interviews with students and teaching teachers, it was found that after using Educandy games students were more enthusiastic and faster in learning English vocabulary. Based on the results of the discussion that has been linked to relevant previous theories and research, it can be concluded that before learning to use educandy learning media, many are lazy to listen to the teacher during learning, while when a learning media is applied, namely educandy, students are initially lazy in a learner, be enthusiastic in following the lesson.