The effectiveness of Toba Boat Race Game on learning vocabulary for junior high school students.

This study focuses on determining the effectiveness of Toba Boat Race Game on vocabulary learning at the junior high school level. The Toba Boat Race game aims to provide challenging and fun language learning as a blend of learning and playing. The Toba Boat Race Game that is presented contains local wisdom content where the vocabulary learned provides an understanding of social, cultural, artistic, historical and regional noble values and provides English learning through vocabulary mastery which is expected to be captured concretely because the context is relevant to students' daily lives day. The game users complete various kinds of challenges according to the levels that must be passed in the form of word puzzles, snakes and ladders, word matching, word completion and others. Testing the effectiveness of educational games is carried out using quasi-experimental design. The test results of the respondents on the effectiveness of using the Toba Boat Race game increases to 44.5 in mean achievement in English vocabulary mastery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]