Author (Penulis)

RONA ESTONIA HARTANI
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

13.1.01.08.0046

Abstract

ABSTRACT This research is aimed to find whether crossword puzzle can improve the student’s interest toward English teaching and to find out crossword puzzle can improve the vocabulary mastery. Vocabulary is one of the language aspect that very important for studying English. But, most of the students in junior high school as the beginners in learning and mastering lesson get much difficulty to learn English especially in vocabulary. Therefore, the researcher would like to try crossword puzzle methods to solve some problems that experienced by most students. Then the problem research are (1) How is the teaching and learning process when crossword puzzle is implemented in vocabulary intruction to the eighth grade students’ of SMPN 5 Kediri in academic year 2016/2017? (2) How effective is crossword puzzle in vocabulary mastery to the eighth grade students’ of SMPN 5 Kediri in academic year 2016/2017? (3) What are the strengths and weaknesses of the using crossword puzzle in vocabulary mastery to the eighth grade students’ of SMPN 5 Kediri in academic year 2016/2017? This research used quantitative method especially uses pre experimental design. The design of pre experimental is one group pre test and post test design. The subject of this research is the eighth grade students of SMPN 5 Kediri that uses as the sample class and consist of 35 students. The data analisis was done by test. The result of test was analyzed by using spss 21.0. The result show The result reports that the t-test was higher than t-table showed t-test is 25,286 and the t-table with degree of freedom 35 is 12,099 at the level of significance of 5%. It means t-test was higher than t-table (12,099 > 2,032) and Sig. (2-tailed) is 0,000 was lower than 0.05. Then, the means differences between pre-test and post-test score was 25,286. It means Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. It can be defined that there was significant effect of crossword puzzle on vocabulary mastery than teaching vocabulary without crossword puzzle, alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis was rejected. In other words, crossword puzzle gives significant influence on students’ vocabulary mastery of the eighth grade students in SMPN 5 Kediri. Finally, the researcher concludes that this research will be useful in the teaching vocabulary for the purpose of improving the students vocabulary mastery and the researcher also hopes that this research can be useful to the teacher, students, and the readers. The researcher suggestion for English teacher should improve the ability in the process of teaching and learning and the teacher should know toward the students’ problem. Keyword: Teaching, Vocabulary Mastery, Crossword Puzzle

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PUBLISHED

2017-08-16

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

ISSUE

Vol. 01 No. 05 Tahun 2017

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