The use of crossword puzzle to improve students' vocabulary mastery at seventh grade of SMPN 02 Maron / Ria Purwanti
| Main Author: | Purwanti, Ria |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed |
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, 2017
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http://repository.um.ac.id/10781/ |
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- ABSTRACTPurwantiRia.2017.TheUseofCrosswordPuzzletoImproveStudentsVocabularyMasteryatSeventhatSMPN2Maron.ThesisDepartmentofEnglishLiteratureFacultyofLettersStateUniversityofMalang.Advisors(I)Drs.AndiMuhtarM.A.(II)Dr.EnnyIrawatiM.Pd.KeywordsVocabularyMasteryCrosswordPuzzleGameThisresearchwasaClassroomActionResearch(CAR)whichaimedtoimprovestudentsvocabularymasterybyusingacrosswordpuzzlegame.TheresearchstudywasconductedatSMPN2Maron.BasedontheresultsofthepreliminarystudyintheformofavocabularytestforstudentsandaninterviewtotheEnglishteacheritwasfoundthatstudentshaddifficultyacquiringnewvocabularyinEnglish.30studentsofgrade7Aweretreatedassubjectsofthisstudy.Theresearchstudywasconductedinthreemeetings.ThisformofresearchisacollaborativeclassroomactionresearchwhichwasaimedatsolvingproblemsthatwereexperiencedbyEnglishteachersinvocabularymasteryofthestudents.InthisresearchtheEnglishteacheractedasacollaboratorwhichobservedtheuseofcrosswordpuzzlegameintheclassroom.Thisclassroomactionresearchconsistedofseveralactivitiesincorporatedinthecycleconsistingofplanningimplementingobservingandreflecting.Researcheronlyhadonecycleofresearchbecausetheresultsofstudentslearninghasmetthecriteriaofsuccess.Basedontheresultsoftheapplicationoflearningstrategiesusingcrosswordpuzzlegamethisgamehadapositiveimpactonstudentsvocabularymastery.Atthefirstmeetingstudentsweregivenareadingtextaccordingtothetopic.Studentswerethenaskedtoaskadifficultvocabularyandweregivenacrosswordpuzzlegame20questions.Inthesecondmeetingstudentswereaskedtomention20vocabularythathadbeenlearnedinthepreviousmeeting.Afterthatstudentsweregivencrosswordpuzzlestotaling20questions.Atthelastmeetingstudentswereaskedtoname40vocabularythatwerelearnedatthepreviousmeeting.Finallystudentsweregivenavocabularytestofwhattheyhadlearnedinthepreviousmeetings.Theresultofthestudentstesthadreachedthestandardscorethathadbeensetthatis76.Allthestudents(30people)hadreachedthestandardscoreoraboveorif100%studentshadreachedthestandardscore.InadditionaquestionnaireaboutstudentsopinionsontheuseofcrosswordpuzzlegameshowedpositiveresultsonstudentsvocabularymasteryinEnglish.Basedonthefindingsresearchergavesomesuggestionstominimizeproblemsinvocabularymastery.SuggestionsforEnglishteacherstheresearchersuggestedtoEnglishteacherstousecrosswordpuzzlegamesincethisgamehelpsstudentsimprovestudentsvocabularymastery.Inadditionteacherswerealsoencouragedtomotivatestudentssothattheycouldimprovetheirownvocabularyusingthisgame.Forotherresearcherstheyareabletodoresearchusingthisgameinhigherstudentlevelsanddifferentscopessoastoknowthepowerofthisgameinimprovingvocabularymastery.