Journal of Language Education and Educational Technology (JLEET)
Vol 7, No 2 (2022):

The Use of Kahoot for Teaching Vocabulary

Samsuddin Samsuddin (Halu Oleo University)
Tambunan Tambunan (Unknown)
Alberth Alberth (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
21 Oct 2022

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate whether the use of Kahoot! application has a significant effect on students’ vocabulary and whether the students have positive perceptions towards the use of Kahoot! as a media in learning academic vocabulary. This research was conducted with the fourth semester students of the English department of UM Kendari which involved 31 students. The data were attained from students’ vocabulary test and questionnaire. Paired sample ttest indicated that p<0.000, suggesting a significant effect of Kahoot! on students’ vocabulary achievement. The results of the questionnaire suggested that the students have a positive perception of Kahoot! with 75.38% participants favoring its application. With these results, it can be stated that Kahoot! application is able to improve the students’ vocabulary achievement and that students enjoy learning vocabulary using Kahoot! Implications of these findings will be critically discussed in this paper.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JLEET

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other

Description

Journal of Language Education and Educational Technology (JLEET) is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to issues related to foreign and second language teaching/learning and how educational technology can be used to enhance language teaching and learning. Its primary goal is to disseminate ...