A comparative study between using crossword puzzle and mind mapping strategy toward students’ vocabulary mastery at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan

Hasibuan, Zainuddin (2019) A comparative study between using crossword puzzle and mind mapping strategy toward students’ vocabulary mastery at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about A Comparative Study Between Using Crossword Puzzle and Mind Mapping Strategy Toward Students’ Vocabulary Mastery at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. The problems of this research were students were lack in remembering the meaning of words, students had lack motivation in learning vocabulary, and students did not have the suitable strategy in learning vocabulary. So that the students could not master in vocabulary. The purposes of this research was to examine the students’ vocabulary mastery before and after using Crossword Puzzle and Mind Mapping Strategies and examine whether there was significant difference between using crossword puzzle and mind mapping strategy toward students’ vocabulary mastery at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan or not. In order to achieve the purposes of this research, the researcher conducted experimental research. The population of this research was the eleventh grade of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan, that consisted of 260 students. Then, the sample of the research was 2 experimental classes, the first experimental class by using crossword puzzle strategy (VIII-1), and the second experimental class by using mind mapping strategy (VIII-2). It was taken after conducting normality and homogeneity test. In collecting the data, researcher used test for measuring students’ vocabulary mastery. In analyzing the data, the researcher used t-test formula. Based on the result of the research, researcher showed the description of the data was found that the mean score of the first experimental class by using crossword puzzle strategy was higher than the second experimental class by using mind mapping strategy (73.4>67.3), and the score of tcount was higher than ttable (2.857>2.024). It means that the hypothesis alternative (Ha) was accepted. It was concluded that there was the significant difference between using crossword puzzle and mind mapping strategy toward students’ vocabulary mastery at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan.

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