%A  1213042048  MEISITA AIDILA
%T A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN STUDENTS?
VOCABULARYACHIEVEMENT WHO ARE TAUGHT BY USING
CROSSWORD PUZZLE AND RIDDLE GAME AT SECOND GRADE
STUDENTS OF SMP SWADHIPA 1 NATAR
%X The purposes of this research were to find out the difference of students?
vocabulary achievement taught through crossword puzzle and riddle game, the
method who improve the student?s vocabulary the most, and students? appraisal
about crossword puzzle and riddle in teaching learning process. This research was
conducted at second grade of SMP Swadhipa 1 natar in 2016/2017 academic year.
The samples of this research were two classes, VIII.A and VIII.B. In collecting
the data, the researcher used vocabulary test and questionnaire.
This research was done in four meetings. In the first meeting, the teacher started
the first meeting with giving pretest as media to find the students vocabulary
achievement. In the second meeting, the researcher taught them about crossword
puzzle in class A and riddle game in class B. After explaining they were asked to
make a group that consist 4-5 students in each group, each group was given one
topic from the teacher such as coconut tree, flower, vegetable, and etc. In the next
meeting, the researcher explained how to make a crossword puzzle of topic that
the teacher was give. After that the researcher asked them to answer crossword
puzzle and riddle game and exchanged their paper to other group. In the last
meeting, the researcher conducted post test and distributed questionnaire.
The results of this research showed that: first, there was difference in students?
vocabulary achievement taught crossword puzzle and riddle game. It could be
seen from their means score of post test of crossword puzzle class was 81,73 and
riddle game class was 73,04 with t-value was 2.629, which the data significant
based on t-table was at least 2.015 and 0.00 < 0.05. It meant that there was
significant improvement in students? vocabulary achievement taught through
crossword puzzle and riddle game. The second result related to the second
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research quotation. It showed that the students were satisfied with crossword
puzzle and riddle game. In crossword puzzle and riddle game correction, all of the
students agreed that the techniques helped them to learn English better, improved
their vocabulary and helped them to recognize their lack.
%C UNIVERSITY OF LAMPUNG
%D 2017
%I FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION 
%L eprints29502