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THE EFFECT OF JUMBLED-LETTERS GAME TO IMPROVE

VOCABULARY MASTERY OF THE SEVENTH-GRADE

STUDENTS OF SMPN 3 BATU

THESIS

This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve

Sarjana Degree in English Education

By :

Nova Arianti

NIM : 201110100311082

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

2015

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MOTTO AND DEDICATIONS

اجهد وال تكسل وال تك غافال فندامة العقبى لمن يتكاسل

(Bersungguh-sungguhlah dan jangan bermala-malasan dan

jangan pula lengah, karena penyesalan itu bagi orang yang

bermalas-malasan)

“Formulas of a success are hard work, pray hard, and never

give up “

This thesis dedicated for

My beloved father Supir Gianto,

my beloved mother Sri Rianti R,

and my beloved little sister Dinda.

All of my family,

Thank you for everything

I LOVE YOU

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ACKNOWLEGMENT

Alhamdulillah hirobil’alamin,

All praise to Allah SWT for giving a great blessing and guidance to the

writer, so that she can finish this thesis.

The researcher would like to express her deepest gratitude to the first

advisor, Dr. Sudiran, M.Hum for his time to help, advice, suggestion, and guide in

the process of writing this thesis. Then, the researcher also expresses her great

thanks to the second advisor, Santi Prastiyowati, M.Pd, for her patient in giving

correction, explanations, suggestions, and guide the writer to finish this thesis.

The deepest gratitude is also express to the headmaster of SMPN 3 Batu,

Djihad, M.Kpd and the teacher, Edy Winaryanto, S.Pd Who gave her opportunity

to conduct the research.

Furthermore, the special thanks to researcher’s family especially to

mother, Sri Rianti Rahajeng, father Supir Gianto, and beloved little sister Dinda

Fitri Melania for the greatest affection, pray, care, and support her to finish this

thesis.

Then, for the researcher’s roomate Wiwit Rahmawati who like a sister

and family thank you for your patient, support and accompanied her from first till

the end of our study in this university.

The researcher thanks to all of her friends in B class English Department,

especially Ika, Okta, Fifi, Shelfi, Ade who always helped and accompany her

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from first semester. Thanks to my boarding mate “kost merah” Pita, Ayu, Hasbi,

Diah, Titin for your support, kindness, friendship, and always being there.

May Allah bless them all for their help and contribution. Finally, the

researcher realizes this research is still far from being prefect, so the researcher

hopes the critics and suggestions to improve it to be better.

Writer,

Nova Arianti

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER ............................................................................................................... i

APPROVAL PAGE BEFORE DEFENSE ....................................................... ii

APPROVAL PAGE AFTER DEFENSE .......................................................... iii

STATEMENT OF WORK’S ORIGINALITY ................................................. iv

MOTTO AND DEDICATION ........................................................................... v

ABSTRACT ......................................................................................................... vi

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT .................................................................................. vii

TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................... ix

LIST OF TABLE ................................................................................................ xi

LIST OF FIGURE .............................................................................................. xii

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of Study ................................................................................ 4

1.2 Statement of Problem ................................................................................ 4

1.3 Hypothesis ................................................................................................. 4

1.4 Purpose of Study ....................................................................................... 4

1.5 Significance of Study ................................................................................ 4

1.6 Scope and Limitation ................................................................................ 5

1.7 Definition of Key Term ............................................................................. 5

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1 Teaching and Learning English .................................................................. 7

2.2 Teaching Vocabulary ................................................................................. 8

2.3 Technique of Teaching Vocabulary ........................................................... 9

2.4 Games ......................................................................................................... 13

2.5 The Advantage of Games ........................................................................... 15

2.6 Jumbled-Letters Game as the Technique of Teaching Vocabulary ........... 16

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1 Research Design ......................................................................................... 18

3.2 Population and Sample ............................................................................... 19

3.3 Data Collection ........................................................................................... 20

3.3.1 Research Instrument ......................................................................... 20

3.3.2 Procedure of the Data Collection ..................................................... 21

3.4 Data Analysis ............................................................................................. 21

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

4.1 Research Findings ...................................................................................... 23

4.1.1 The Result of Pre-test ...................................................................... 23

4.1.2 The Result of Post-test ..................................................................... 24

4.1.3 The Result of Normality Testing ..................................................... 25

4.1.4 The Result of Homogeneous Testing ............................................... 26

4.1.5 The Result of Dependent T-test ....................................................... 27

4.1.6 The Result of Hypothesis Testing .................................................... 28

4.2 Discussion .................................................................................................. 30

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

5.1 Conclusion .................................................................................................. 34

5.2 Suggestions ................................................................................................. 35

REFERENCES .................................................................................................... 37

APPENDICES ..................................................................................................... 40

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LIST OF TABLE

Table 3.1 Nonrandomized Control Group, Pre-test Post-test Design ................... 19

Table 4.1 The Result of Pre-test ............................................................................ 24

Table 4.2 The Result of Post-test .......................................................................... 25

Table 4.3 The Result of Normality Testing of Control Group and

Experimental Group ............................................................................. 26

Table 4.4 The Result of Homogeneous Testing .................................................... 27

Table 4.5 The Result of Dependent Test of Experimental Class .......................... 27

Table 4.6 The Result of Dependent Test of Control Class ................................... 28

Table 4.7 The Result of Independent Sample T-test ............................................. 29

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LIST OF FIGURE

2.1 Example of Word Card .................................................................................. 11

2.2 Examples of the Picture and Jumbled-Letters................................................ 16

2.3 Example of the Alphabet ............................................................................... 17

2.4 Example of Match and Stamp the Correct Answer........................................ 18

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