Improving English Vocabulary Mastery By Using Crossword Puzzle (A Classroom Action Research At The Fourth Grade Students Of Sd Negeri Pakurejo, Bulu Temanggung In Academic Year 2011/2012)

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Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Sebelas Maret University, 2012 The objectives of this research are finding out: (1) The improvement of the students‟ vocabulary mastery through crossword puzzles and (2) The effect of teaching learning process when teaching vocabulary by using crossword puzzles is done. The action research was conducted at SD Negeri Pakurejo, Bulu, Temanggung, from 7th May 2012 until 31th May 2012. There were 20 students in fourth grade. It was carried out in two cycles. Both the first cycle and the second cycle consist of three meetings. Each cycle consists of identifying the problem, planning, implementing, observing, reflecting, and revising the plan. The techniques for collecting data were observation, interview, questionnare, field notes, photograph and test. The technique for analyzing the data were assembling the data, coding the data, comparing the data, building interpretations and reporting the outcomes. The result of this action research shows the improvement of students‟ vocabulary mastery and the effect of teaching learning process. The improvement of students‟ vocabulary mastery could be seen in the increase of the mean score of pre-test: 50, post-test 1: 69 and post-test 2: 80. The students could memorize the vocabularies taught and their meanings and pronounce the words correctly. So, the students‟ pronunciations improved. The effect of teaching learning process was be indicated by the following evidences: the students were more active in following the lesson; most of the students were not ashamed to answer the question; students became less noisy so that they could focus more on the lesson and could actively follow teacher