A Comparative Study of Students’ Vocabulary Achievement Between Those Who Are Taught Using Memrise and Using Quizlet

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find out whether there is or not a significant difference in vocabulary achievement between students who are taught using Memrise and those who are taught using Quizlet. This study is focused on the use of the website versions of Memrise and Quizlet to improve the vocabulary achievement of 2nd-semester students of the Sharia Faculty of IAIN Kendari in the academic year of 2022/2023. This study used a quantitative method with comparative research as its design. A purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample of this study, resulting in 22 students of HKI A chosen to be taught using Memrise and 22 students of HKI B chosen to be taught using Quizlet. The data of this study was collected through a pretest and a posttest and then was analyzed by using descriptive statistics (mean, minimum, maximum, and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (paired samples t-test and independent samples t-test). The results of this study show that in both HKI A and HKI B, the mean of the posttest scores is higher than the mean of the pretest scores (61.27 > 46.18 and 55.27 > 30.05, respectively) and the difference in these mean values is statistically significant when tested with the paired samples t-test, where the values of Sig. (2-tailed) of HKI A and HKI B are 0.002 and 0.000, respectively. However, when the mean of the NGain of HKI A is compared to the mean of the NGain of HKI B, the result of the statistical analysis indicates that there is no significant difference in students’ vocabulary NGain scores for both classes as the value of Sig. (2-tailed) is greater than the alpha value (0.216 > 0.05). Therefore, it can be concluded that both the use of Memrise and the use of Quizlet website versions are equally effective in improving the vocabulary achievement of undergraduate students.