1 Intensive Journal http://ojs.uniska-bjm.ac.id/index.php/EJB E-ISSN 1513567470 April 2019, Vol 2 No.1 THE COMPARISON OF USING CHAIN WORD AND PICTIONARY GAMES TOWARD VOCABULARY MASTERY Syaifudin Latif Darmawan & Grassilia Nenny Fatmawati Muhamadiyah University of Metro E-mail : Latifdar2011@gmail.com Abstract : Vocabulary is a main component in learning English. In instructional process, the teachers often apply some kinds of method, technique, and media of vocabulary mastery in teaching and learning process which can make the students bored, lazy, inactive and annoyed to remember the main part of English. This research is proposed to know the distinction between student’s vocabulary mastery instructed by using chain word and Pictionary games at eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Pekalongan and to prove which one of the game is more effective than others. The design of this research is Non-Equivalent Control Group Design. The research is conducted at eighth grade of SMPN 1 Pekalongan. The researcher employs stratified cluster random sampling to take the sample. The population is 576 students in 19 classes and the eighth grade is the sample of this research, 8.1 is as the experimental class and 8.4 is the control class. Based on the result of research, there is a significant distinction of the result between pre-test and post-test score in experimental and control class. The scores indicated that Pictionary game is more effective than chain word game toward students’ vocavulary at eighth grade of SMPN 1 Pekalongan. Keyword: Chain Word Game, Pictionary Game, Vocabulary Mastery. Introduction Language is a useful tool to communicate with others. One of the languages is English, it is considered as an international language. In Indonesia, English is one of foreign languages which is taught from elementary school, junior and senior high school, also in higher educational institution. In English learning there are four skills such as listening, speaking, reading and writing which the students are expected to master all of it. The main element to master the English skill is vocabulary. The students will learn English easily if they know English vocabulary first. Mastering vocabulary is very important because it can improve many subjects in English learning. In vocabulary class, the students should have good ability in English vocabulary because it can support all subjects in English. The first, the students must have many vocabularies in English that can help them to know the meaning of what they learn in English. Usually, most of the students feel that English is a difficult lesson to learn, especially