| dc.description.abstract | Vocabulary is the basic thing in language learning. Lack of vocabulary
relatively makes secondary students have problems to master English. However,
learning new vocabulary is not easy for students at Junior high school. They generally
experience difficulties in memorizing the English words they have learnt because
they are quite different from their mother tongue. Riddle is a problem or puzzle in the
form of a question, statement that must be solved. The students can expand their
vocabularies by using riddles. In this way the students have fun to learn vocabulary.
This research was conducted to investigate whether or not there was a
significant effect of using riddles on the eighth grade students’ vocabulary
achievement at SMP 03 ISLAM Rowotengah Sumberbaru Jember in the 2011/2012
academic year. The respondents of this research were the eighth grade students of
SMP 03 ISLAM Rowotengah Sumberbaru Jember in the 2011/2012 academic year
that was determined by cluster random sampling by lottery. The total number of the
respondent was 114 students, divided into experimental and control groups. The
experimental group consisted of 38 students who were taught vocabulary by using
riddles, and the control group consisted of 38 students who were taught vocabulary
without using riddles, but using lecturing technique.
The primary data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of
vocabulary test, while the supporting data of this research were gained through
interview and documentation. The primary data of this research were collected and
then analyzed by using t-test formula. The result indicated that the value of statistic
was 2.93 while t-table was 2.00 with 5% significant level and degree of freedom 74.
Thus, t-statistic was higher than that of t-table (2.93>2.00). It means that the null
hypothesis (Ho): “There is no significant effect of using riddles on the eighth grade
students’ vocabulary achievement at SMP 03 ISLAM Rowotengah Sumberbaru
Jember in the 2011/2012 academic year” is rejected. On the contrary, the alternative
Hypothesis (Ha) that is formulated: “There is a significant effect of using riddles on
the eighth grade students’ vocabulary achievement at SMP 03 ISLAM Rowotengah
in the 2011/2012 academic year is accepted. Furthermore the DRE showed that the
degree of relative effectiveness of riddles was 8.18% higher than the scores of the
students who were not taught by using riddles. Thus, it proved that there was a
significant effect of using riddles on the eighth grade students’ vocabulary
achievement at SMP 03 ISLAM Rowotengah Sumberbaru Jember in the 2011/2012
academic year. Based on the result of this research, it is recommended to the English
teacher to use riddles as an alternative teaching technique. | en_US |
