U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 6, No 1 (2017): U-JET

THE USE OF CROSSWORD PUZZLE GAME AND CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE ON VOCABULARY SIZE

Bagus Alghani (University of Lampung)
Cucu Sutarsyah (University of Lampung)
Ari Nurweni (University of Lampung)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 Feb 2017

Abstract

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menyelidiki perbedaan ukuran kosakata antara siswa ekstrovert dan introvert yang diajarkan melalui permainan teka-teki silang dan teknik pengelompokan pada tahun pertama di SMA Negeri 1 Purbolinggo. Peneliti menggunakan dua kelas sebagai kelas eksperimen yang terdiri dari 36 siswa pada masing-masing kelas. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain faktorial. Berdasarkan temuan dari analisis data, dapat ditarik kesimpulan bahwa ada interaksi antara teknik dan kepribadian dalam ukuran kosakata siswa. Interpretasinya bahwa Ho tidak ada perbedaan antara dua teknik ditolak. Teknik-teknik berbeda secara signifikan bahwa siswa lebih baik dalam teknik pengelompokan. Siswa ekstrovert lebih baik daripada introvert apapun tekniknya. Oleh karena itu, menggunakan permainan teka-teki silang dan teknik pengelompokan adalah cara sempurna bagi siswa ekstrovert untuk meningkatkan kosakata mereka karena skor mereka meningkat melalui teknik-teknik tersebut.The objective of this research was to investigate the difference of vocabulary size between extrovert and introvert students who were taught through crossword puzzle game and clustering technique at the first year of SMA Negeri 1 Purbolinggo. The researcher used two classes as experimental classes, which consisted of 36 students for each. The research used factorial design. Based on the findings of the data analysis, it could be drawn that there was an interaction between the techniques and the personalities in students vocabulary size. The interpretation would be that the Ho of no difference between the two techniques could be rejected. The techniques differed significantly with the students performing better in clustering technique. Extroverts did better than introverts regardless of the techniques. Therefore, using crossword puzzle game and clustering technique was a perfect way for extrovert students to improve their vocabulary size since their score increased through those techniques.Keywords: vocabulary size, crossword puzzle game, clustering technique

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...