Dani, Bela Rahma (2025) The Effectiveness of Crossword Puzzle on Students’ Vocabulary Mastery at Tenth Grade of SMK Negeri 1 Metro. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

Vocabulary is an important aspect in English learning, and it needs to be learned by the students who would like to master a language. In fact, most of the students find it difficult to master vocabulary. This research was aimed at examining the effectiveness of crossword puzzle on students‟ vocabulary mastery.

This is a pre-experimental research by using one group pre-test and post-test design. The study was carried out at tenth grade marketing class of SMK Negeri 1 Metro, consisting of 35 students. The pre-test was given before the treatment and the post-test after treatment. IBM SPSS V 20 for windows was used to analyze the data.

The result obtained showed as a significant increase starting from the average pre-test was 58.34 and the post-test score was 80.00 which showed an increase in result. Furthermore from the result of the paired sample T-test it is known that sig. value (2-tailed) is 0.000. according to the decision making rules in the paired sample T-test the value is sig. (2-tailed) < 0.05 or 0.000 < 0.05. it can be concluded that H0 is rejected and Hα is accepted because there is a significance difference between the pre-test and post-test learning outcomes. As a result, it can be concluded that there is an effect of using crossword puzzle on students‟ vocabulary mastery of tenth grade marketing class in SMK Negeri 1 Metro.

Keyword: Crossword Puzzle, Vocabulary Mastery

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