Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pembelajaran Khatulistiwa (JPPK)
Vol 5, No 3 (2016): Maret 2016

TEACHING VOCABULARY ON CONCRETE NOUN THROUGH CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Rahmayanti, Ririn (Unknown)
., Sudarsono (Unknown)
., Wardah (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
07 Mar 2016

Abstract

Abstract: The purpose of this research is to find out the level of the effectiveness of using crossword puzzle to enrich the vocabulary of Year-8 students of “SMPN 16 Pontianak” in Academic Year 2014/2015. This research was a pre-experimental study. The sample was a purposive sampling, that is, Class VIII E that consists of 36 students. The data were collected from the pre-test and post-test. The data were analyzed by using Effect Size (ES) formula. The research finding shows that the effect size of the treatment is 1.27 (> 1.00). It is categorized “strong”. It indicates that crossword puzzle is very effective to teach vocabulary to Year-8 students. Key words: crossword puzzle, teaching vocabulary Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui tingkat efektifitas dari crossword puzzle untuk memperkaya kosa kata siswa kelas 8 SMPN 16 Pontianak tahun ajaran 2014/2015. Penelitian ini adalah sebuah penelitian pre-experimental. Teknik pengambilan sampel yang digunakan adalah purposive sampling. Sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas VIII E yg terdiri atas 36 siswa. Data-data di ambil dengan menerapkan rumus ES (tingkat efektifitas). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa tingkat efektifitas dari penggunaan crossword puzzle adalah 1.27 (> 1.00). Hasil ini dikategorikan memiliki efek yang kuat. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa crossword puzzle sangat efektif utuk mengajarkan kosa kata kepada siswa kelas 8. Kata kunci: crossword puzzle, mengajarkan vocabulary

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jpdpb

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Subject

Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Mathematics Other

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Journal of Pendidikan dan Pembelajaran Khatulistiwa (JPPK) is a peer-reviewed journal which focuses on topics related to education and science in various teaching and learning fields. JPPK invites researchers, lecturers, teachers from various levels such as elementary and secondary levels of ...