Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL)
Vol 10, No 1 (2020): Issued in March 2020

Interactive game “Kahoot!” as the media of students’ vocabulary assessment

Hadijah Hadijah (Magister Program of English Education, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, Yogyakarta)
Bambang Widi Pratolo (Magister Program of English Education, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, Yogyakarta)
Rondiyah Rondiyah (Magister Program of English Education, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, Yogyakarta)



Article Info

Publish Date
14 Mar 2020

Abstract

This research aims to investigate students’ perspectives on using the interactive game “Kahoot!” as the media of vocabulary test at one of the public senior high schools in Yogyakarta Indonesia. It was qualitative research with five voluntarily participating students as the participants. An in-depth semi-structured interview was applied as the data collection technique. The theme-based analysis was used in this study. The finding shows that first, Kahoot! is more practical for a vocabulary test. Second, the game can attract the students’ attention to the test. Third, it helps the students to be more active in the classroom and the last, the game makes the students more enthusiastic in doing the test. However, this research also found some negative sides of using Kahoot!; first, the students become less confident with their score, especially when they get lower scores than other students because the scores were displayed on the leader board in Kahoot! application; second, some students had a lack of knowledge in using the application; and the last, the time was limited. This study implies that the use of Kahoot! in the EFL classroom can be an alternative for teachers to teach vocabulary and provide fun learning activities for the students.

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http://e-journal.iain-palangkaraya.ac.id/index.php

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Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL) is an open access academic, scholarly peer-reviewed journal and follows a double blind review policy. The Journal is scheduled for publication biannually, in March and September, with the first issue to appear in March 2011. This Journal has been ...