Improving students’ compound words mastery through crossword puzzle at grade VIII SMP Negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan

Harahap, Yanti Rohani (2016) Improving students’ compound words mastery through crossword puzzle at grade VIII SMP Negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research was about students’ problems in vocabulary that does been solved by using crossword puzzle. The formulation of the problem was about compound words mastery it would be solved crossword puzzle at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan. The objectives of the research have to find whether learning compound words through crossword puzzle can improve students’ compound words mastery at grade VIII SMP Negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan. This research was conducted by classroom action research. The participants of this research were students at grade VIII of SMP Negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan that were totally 25 students. This research was used test, interview and observation as instruments. Test was used to take the score of students’ vocabulary, and use mean score and percentage as formulation. Next, interview and observation was used to know condition and contribute the test. Based on the result of this research, the students’ learning compound words improved with percentage in the first cycle 44 % and 76% in the second cycle. So that, there was 32% improvement. It was suitable with mean score of students’ learning vocabulary that have been gotten in the first cycle was 72.16 improved to become 77.12 in the second cycle. Finally, students’ learning compound words can improve with using crossword puzzle technique. So, it was recommended that crossword puzzle could be used in teaching learning compound words in classroom based on the research.

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