Chubbi Millatina Rokhuma , 2201407172 (2011) A Comparative Study of Using Crossword Puzzles and Quartet Card to Enhance Students’ Vocabulary Mastery (A Case of the 4th Grade Students of MI Al Iman Banaran Gunung Pati Semarang in the Academic Year of 2010/2011). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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The objective of this study is to find out whether there is any significant difference of vocabulary mastery achieved by the fourth grade students of MI Al Iman Banaran Gunung Pati Semarang who have been taught using crossword puzzle game from those taught using quartet card game in the academic year of 2010/2011. The method which is used in this study is true experimental method, while the design of this study is pre test-post test comparison group design. The subjects of this study are the students of the 4th grade students of MI Al Iman Banaran Gunung Pati Semarang in the academic year of 2010/2011. They were divided into two groups. Class IV A that consists of twenty seven students was considered as the experimental group 1. While class IV B that consists of twenty eight students was considered as the experimental group 2. In this research, both of the two groups were given pre-test in order to know their first condition. Afterwards, both of them were given treatment. The experimental group 1 was taught by using crossword puzzles, while the experimental group 2 was taught by using quartet card. After the treatment, both of them were given post-test. It was given to know whether there is any significant difference of vocabulary mastery achieved by the fourth grade students of MI Al Iman Banaran Gunung Pati Semarang who have been taught by using crossword puzzle game from those who were taught by using quartet card game in the academic year of 2010/2011. The methods of data collection in this research are documentation and test. The documentation was used to obtain the students’ list that belonged to the subject of the study, while test was used to measure the students’ vocabulary mastery. The gathered data were analyzed by using statistical analysis. To test the hypothesis of this research, the formula used is t-test formula. The post-test means of the experimental group 1 (crossword puzzles group) is 87.96, while the post-test means of experimental group 2 is 81.96. Based on the calculation of hypothesis test, it was obtained that thitung = 2.24 and ttabel = 2.01, because thitung > ttabel,, Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. It means that the means of the vocabulary mastery of the experimental group 1 was greater than or not equal to the means of the experimental group 2. Thus, it can be concluded that there was significant difference of vocabulary mastery achieved by the fourth grade students of MI Al Iman Banaran Gunung Pati Semarang who have been taught by using crossword puzzle game from those who were taught by using quartet card game in the academic year of 2010/2011. Therefore, it is suggested for English teachers to use crossword puzzle game in teaching English vocabulary, because even though both of crossword puzzle game and quartet card game are effective to improve students’ vocabulary mastery, it was proved that in teaching English vocabulary, crossword puzzle game was more effective to be used than quartet card game.

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