| dc.description.abstract | The Effect of Using Riddles on the Eighth Grade Students’ Vocabulary Achievement at
SMP 1 Banyuglugur in the 2013/2014 Academic Year; Restu Fajar Rayih S,
070210401082; 2014 :36 pages; English Education Program of Language and
Arts Education department, the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education,
Jember University.
Vocabulary is a component of a language that maintains all of information
about meaning and using word in a language. Vocabulary is also an important part in
learning language skills. We cannot understand the words or sentences without
understanding their meaning. Lack of vocabulary makes the students have problems
to master English. To solve the problem, the researcher used riddles to help the
students memorize and understand the meaning of new vocabulary.
This experimental research was intended to know whether there is a
significant effect of using Riddles on the vocabulary achievement. The area of this
research was SMPN 1 Banyuglugur . it was chosen because had never been used by
the English teacher in teaching English , especially on teaching vocabulary. The
research design in this research was a quasi-experimental design. It began from
conducting homogeneity test, deciding the experimental class and the control class,
giving treatment to the experimental class who were taught vocabulary by using
Riddles, and the control class who were taught vocabulary without using Riddles, but
using lecturing technique, giving the same post test to both classes, and analyzing the
results of the posttest by using t-test.
Based on the result of the homogeneity test, class VIII E and VIII F were
chosen as the experimental class and the control class. The total number of
respondent was 72 students. The experimental group was 36 students from class F,
while the control group was 36 students from class E.
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The results of this research were as follows: the total number of test takers of
the experimental class was 36 students and the control class was 36 students. The
mean score of vocabulary test of the experimental class was 81.18 with the standard
deviation 6.85. Then, the mean score of vocabulary test of the control class was 75.97
with standard deviation 6.44. In the t-test column, we can see that the value of
significance column was 0.001 and this value was lower than 0.05. It means that there
was a statistically difference between the experimental group and the control group.
Consequently, the null hypothesis (H
): “There is no significant Effect of using
Riddles on the Eighth Grade Student’ Vocabulary Achievement at SMPN 1
Banyuglugur Situbondo” was rejected. On the other hand, the alternative hypothesis:
“There is a significant Effect of Using Riddles on the Eighth Grade Student’
Vocabulary Achievement at SMPN 1 Banyglugur Situbondo” was accepted. | en_US |
