The effect of word search puzzle game to vocabulary mastery at the VIII grade students of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan

Lubis, Linda Sari (2021) The effect of word search puzzle game to vocabulary mastery at the VIII grade students of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about the effect of word word search puzzle game to vocabulary mastery at the VIII Grade Students‘ of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. The problems of the research were the students cannot used vocabulary correctly and uninterested teaching strategy. As the result, the students are difficult in understanding vocabulary and the students so lazy in opening the dictionary. The aim of this research was to find out the effect of word search puzzle game to vocabulary mastery at the VIII grade students‘ of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. This research has three formulations of the problem, they are how the students‘ vocabulary mastery before using Word Search Puzzle Game is, how the students‘ vocabulary mastery after using Word Search Puzzle Game is, there is any significant effect of Word Search Puzzle Game to vocabulary mastery or not. The purpose of this research are to know the students‘ vocabulary mastery before using Word Search Puzzle Game. To know the students‘ vocabulary mastery after using Word Search Puzzle Game. To examine there is or there is no significant effect of using Word Search Puzzle Game to vocabulary mastery at the VIII grade students of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. This research applied experimental research. The population of this research was the VIII grade of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. The total of population were nine classes. Then, the sample of the research was 2 classes, experiment class (VIII-1 and control calss VIII-2). It was taken after conducting normality and homogeneity test. To collect the data, researcher used test for measuring students‘ vocabulary mastery. To analysis the data, the researcher used t-test. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that the mean of experimental class in pre-test was 60,12 and in the post test was 74,71. The proof was 15,36. Then the mean score of control class in pre-test was 55,12 and in the post-test was 58,37. The proof was 3,25. The effect of Word Search Puzzle Game to vocabulary mastery at the VIII grade students of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan was 5,31 where tcount > ttable (5,31>2,39), it means that hypothesis Ha was accepted and H0 was rejected. So, it shows that there was a significant effect of Word Search Puzzle Game to vocabulary mastery at the VIII grade students of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan.

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