THE EFFECT OF USING RIDDLES ON THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT AT SMPN I JENGGAWAH IN THE 2012/2013 ACADEMIC YEAR IN THE 2012/2013 ACADEMIC YEAR IN THE 2012/2013 ACADEMIC Y

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SUMMARY The Effect of Using Riddles on the Seventh Grade Students’ Vocabulary Achievement at SMPN 1 Jenggawah in the 2012/2013 Academic Year; Siti Aisyah, 080210401017; 2013:43 pages; English Language Education Study Program, Language and Arts Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Jember University. Vocabulary is one of the language components that cannot be separated from learning English in general. It is the key aspect of the four language skills. According to Tarigan One of the techniques that can be used to teach vocabulary is riddles. Riddles can make the students enjoy in teaching learning process and make the students interested and motivated in learning English. In other words, if the students are interested and motivated in learning English, they will be easier to understand and comprehend the words they learn so that it can influence their achievement. This research was quasi experimental research. The purpose of this research was to investigate whether or not there was a significant effect of using Riddles on the seventh grade students’ vocabulary achievement at SMPN 1 Jenggawah in the 2012/2013 academic year. The area of this research was SMPN 1 Jenggawah. It was chosen purposively because the use of riddles had never been applied in teaching xiii learning process in this school. The populations of this research were the seventh grade students of SMPN 1 Jenggawah in the 2012/ 2013 academic year. The research respondents were determined by cluster random sampling through a lottery. The total number of the respondents was 78 students that consisted of 40 students of VII-C as the experimental group taught vocabulary by using riddles and 38 students of VII-A as control group taught vocabulary by using lecturing and question-answer techniques. The data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of vocabulary achievement test, interview and documentation. The vocabulary achievement test was collected from the post test to know the mean score of the two groups, and the result was analyzed by using t-test formula through SPSS. Based on the calculation, the mean score of the experimental group was higher than the mean score of the control group. The result of the t-test analysis with significant level of 5% shows that the significant value is 0.033 that is lower than 0.05. It means that there was a statistical difference between the experimental and the control groups . It indicated that there was a significant effect of using riddles on the seventh grade students’ vocabulary achievement at SMPN 1 Jenggawah in the 2012/2013 academic year. Therefore, it is recommended for the teacher to use riddles as a technique in teaching vocabulary.