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Online Crossword Puzzle on Young Learners Vocabulary Knowledge
Vocabulary is one of the essential language components in learning the English
language. Therefore, the learners must learn vocabulary to be able to master four
skills, which are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Teaching vocabulary to
young leaners is considered difficult. As a result, the teacher can use one of the
media that can be applied in teaching vocabulary to young learners using an
online crossword puzzle game. The aim of this research is to find out the effect
whether teaching vocabulary using online crossword puzzle games have a
significant effect on vocabulary knowledge for young learners. The research is
conducted to the fourth grade students of SDIT-At takwin Sukabumi. Random
sampling technique is used to get sample from the population and there are two
classes that become the sample in this research. There are 25 students from class
IV B and 25 students from class IV C. In conducting the research, quasi-
experimental method and one group pre-test and post-test design are used. The
data was taken from pre-test and post-test by giving vocabulary test. The data are
calculated by using t-test formula. Based on the data calculation, the result of
tcalculated is 5.0813 while the level significant of ttable 1.677 and the level significant
of 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) of 48. Therefore, it can be concluded the t-
test value is higher that the t-table value (5.0813 > 1.677). It means that
alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted, which is the result shows that the
students‟ in learning vocabulary with the experimental group has significant effect
after giving the treatments using online crossword puzzle game. The students can
memorize the word easier because they understand the meaning of the word by
engaging in language learning experiences through visual aids.
Keywords: Teaching vocabulary, online crossword puzzle, vocabulary knowledge
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