Playing 4 Pics 1 Word for Vocabulary Learning: EFL Students’ Perception

Abstract

4 Pics 1 Word Application is a picture guessing game where at each level we will be given four pictures related to one word. The aim of this research is to find out the EFL students’ perception about playing 4 Pics 1 Word for vocabulary learning. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The researcher used direct interviews as a data collection technique for 3 students from class VII who attended a Junior High School in the Padang Lawas district. The result of this research are that the advantages of using the 4 Pics 1 Word application are that it is an exciting and challenging game, provides various levels and categories, provides a help feature for answering difficult questions, does not require an internet connection when using the application, has a simple and easy interface used, the 4 Pics 1 Word app can be used by all ages. Besides the advantages, there are also disadvantages of the 4 Pics 1 Word application in accordance with the perceptions of students who use the application as a learning media for learning vocabulary, namely some questions or words are considered too difficult to answer, advertisements are quite annoying when playing for free and some special features which is only available in the paid version.