THE EFFECTS OF CROSSWORD PUZZLE GAME ON SPEAKING ACHIEVMENT

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to find out whether the crossword puzzle game can be used to improve the students‟ speaking ability and to determine whether there is a significant different before and after being taught through crossword puzzle game. This research was quantitative by nature. The design of this research was one group pretest-posttest. The subjects were class VIII D Muhammadiyah Junior High School 3 consisting of 36 students. In collecting the data, the researcher administered speaking test and interview. The result show that the mean score of the students‟ pretest 58.00 and the posttest 82.00. By comparing between the mean score of pretest and posttest, it can be found that increase was 24.00. From the computation, it can be found that t-value (35.994) is higher than t-table (2.042). It means that there was improvement in speaking ability. The data show that value of two tail significance was 0.000 and the sign < α (0.000 < 0.05). It could be stated that the hypothesis alternative was accepted.

Keywords: crosswords puzzle game, speking achievement, students' ability