The Use of Crossword Puzzle to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension

Fatimah Zahara, 231324177 (2018) The Use of Crossword Puzzle to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension. Skripsi thesis, UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh.

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Abstract

Reading comprehension is the ability to read a text, process it and comprehend the meaning. Most of students in senior high school faced problem in reading comprehension. The students had low motivation in reading English text, got easily bored with the task and material. One of strategy that can be used by the teacher is using crossword puzzle in teaching reading. Therefore, the writer conduct a research about “The Use of Crossword Puzzle to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehensionˮ. This research is aimed to answer the questions whether crossword puzzle improve students‟ ability in reading comprehension, and to know students‟ perception after learning reading by using crossword puzzle. The research took place in SMA N 5 ABDYA. The sample of this research were students of class XIIA1 as experimental class, and students of class XIIA 2 as control class. To collect the data, the writer conducted test, experimental teaching and questionnaire. Experimental teaching was done in five meetings, by giving one meeting for pre-test, three meetings for treatment, and one meeting for post-test. The result showed that there was a significant improvement on students‟ reading ability by using crossword puzzle. It was proved by the mean score of post-test in experimental is 75, while the mean score of post-test in control class is 60.25. It was also proved by determining hypothesis that tscore>ttable, the tscore of experimental class is 11.20, the tscore of control class is 5.25, while the ttable is 1.72. Even both of class showed significant increase on students‟ acievement, the tscore of experimental class was higher than tscore of control class. Furthermore, based on analysis of the questionnaire, most of students gave positive perception toward using crossword puzzle in learning reading comprehension.

Item Type: Thesis (Skripsi)
Additional Information: Pembimbing: 1. Nidawati, M.Ag 2. Syarifah Dahliana, M.Ag, M.Ed, Ph.D
Uncontrolled Keywords: crossword puzzle, reading comprehension, improve
Subjects: 400 Languages (Bahasa) > 420 English and Old English, Anglo-Saxon (Bahasa Inggris, Anglo-Saxon)
Divisions: Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Keguruan > S1 Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Fatimah Zahara
Date Deposited: 27 May 2019 03:13
Last Modified: 27 May 2019 03:13
URI: https://repository.ar-raniry.ac.id/id/eprint/8057

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