The Effect of Anagram Game on the Eighth

The Effect of Anagram Game on the Eighth Grade Students’ Vocabulary Mastery at SMPN 3 Balaraja By: Dewi Kartikasari 1688203204

A. Background of the Problem Vocabulary has an important role in life, especially in language. Without vocabulary it will be difficult to communicate and interact with each other. Even though vocabulary is important in learning English, the students are often faced with problems of vocabulary mastery. The teacher must be able to create teaching strategies that can attract the attention of students and make students able to remember vocabulary easily. Furthermore, one of the strategies in teaching vocabulary is by using games as teaching media. B. The Identification of the Problems – The students have lack of vocabulary mastery. – The teacher still uses conventional method to teach English. – Students are difficult to identify and understand the meaning of words. – Students have difficulty distinguishing written and oral forms because of their vocabulary limit. Chapter 1

C. The Limitation of the Problems D. The Formulation of the Problems In this research, the researcher limits “Is there any effect of Anagram technique on this research on the effect of Anagram students’ vocabulary? ” game on eighth grade student’s vocabulary mastery at SMPN 3 Balaraja.

E. The Objective of the Study F. The Significance of the Study The objective of this research is to find • For the teacher : The researcher hopes that the teacher understand the problem faced by students out the effect of anagram game on eighth in learn English, and used this research as a grade student’s vocabulary mastery at reference to improve teaching and learning process and to choose the most appropriate teaching SMPN 3 Balaraja. method based on students problem. • For the students : It may be used as source of information to solve their problem and improve their vocabulary. • For the researcher : It may be used as additional information and knowledge of experience in education.

A. Theoretical Description Vocabulary Anagram • Vocabulary is one of the most important things to be mastered in learning English. Hanson & Padua (2011) support that vocabulary is the words that people used for communication both oral and written form. In addition, Hiebert and Kamil (2005) said that vocabulary is the knowledge of words that we can use in speaking and writing • According from The World Book Dictionary (2006) anagram is a word or phrase formed from another by transposing or rearranging the letter. • Example : • CHEAT into TEACH • GRANDMOTHER : Grand, Mother, And, Other, Home, Garden, etc. Chapter 2

B. Relevant Studies 1. The Effect of Anagram Activity to Students’ Vocabulary Knowledge at the Eighth Grade of SMPN 87 Jakarta Selatan by Ellyyana Susanty (2019). 2. The Effect of Anagram Technique on Students’ Vocabulary by Siti Nurjanah (2018). 3. The Effect Word Search Puzzle on Vocabulary Size at the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah Buntok by Aulia Rahmah (2016).

C. Conceptual Framework Vocabulary refers to words and its subsets that become one of crucial aspect in language learning. If the students are good at vocabulary mastery, it will make easier to communicate and understand English. • Anagram game is the word game that is played by arranging letters from original word into a new word. Anagram game is a game that can help teacher teach vocabulary. By using anagram game, students are able to find many new words in a fun way.

D. Research Hypothesis H 0 : There is no significant effect of Anagram Game on eighth grade students’ vocabulary mastery at SMPN 3 Balaraja. H 1 : There is significant effect of Anagram Game on eighth grade students’ vocabulary mastery at SMPN 3 Balaraja.

A. Place and Time of the Research PLACE SMPN 3 BALARAJA & The research held on June 2020. TIME B. Research Method This research used quasi-experiment design. The purpose of the design is to find out the causeeffect between two variables. Chapter 3

C. Population and Sample The population of this research was eight-grade students at SMPN 3 Balaraja. The population of the research was 256 students. The sample of this research was taken from two classes which are VIII. 2 as a control class that was taught without Anagram Game and VIII. 1 as an experimental class that was taught by using Anagram Game.

D. Data Collection Technique To get the data, the researcher will conduct vocabulary test. The test consists of pre-test and post-test. The test consist of 30 multiple choices.

E. Instrument of Dependent Research A. Conceptual Definition Vocabulary has an important role in learning process, without vocabulary students will have difficulty in expressing ideas and mastering the four skills in English. By B. Operational Definition learning vocabulary students are expected to Based on the title of the research, the be able to add new vocabulary in their researcher will teach Experimental Class memory. Besides, vocabulary has an using Anagram Game. The vocabularies that important role in language learning, there is will be tested in the instruments are spelling, a need for vocabulary teaching strategy that and meanings. The meanings consist of can improve students’ vocabulary. denotation, synonym, antonym, hyponim, and translation.

F. Instrument of Independent Research A. Conceptual Definition Anagram game is a word games. In general, anagram games are games that instruct the player to re-arrange the original word by randomizing the letters or sentence, the players are required to solve challenges by finding new words or sentence. Anagram games can be used in teaching and learning vocabulary because the rules of anagram games that require players to find new words are considered very appropriate students to get a lot of vocabulary. for B. Operational Definition One of the ways to teach vocabulary is using game. In teaching vocabulary by using anagram game, teacher can choose vocabulary, and then ask students to rearrange the letters of the original word and ask students to write down the meaning of the new word. Students can write many new words they find into their worksheets.

G. Technique Analysing Data The researcher compared between the experimental class and controlled class. To find whethere is any significance effect between the experimental class and control class. After collecting the data, the researcher analyzed it, through several steps. Those steps are: 1. Descriptive of the Data 3. Test of Hypothesis 2. Parametric Statistic Data Analysis

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