score in the second cycle. Therefore, the result of the students’ vocabulary achievement test in cycle 2 had achieved the target score required.
Based on the results of observation and vocabulary achievement test in Cycle 2, it could be concluded that teaching vocabulary by using crossword
puzzle could improve the students’ vocabulary achievement. Besides, the students were more interested and enthusiastic in learning vocabulary. Besides, the
students’ vocabulary achievement reached the target score required.
4.3 The Results of Supporting Data
This sub chapter presents the results of supporting data. They include the result of interview and the result of documentation. The detail is elaborated in the
following parts.
4.3.1 The Result of Interview The interview was conducted with the English teacher of the eighth grade
students of SMP negeri 2 Lumajang in the preliminary study. From the information given by the English teacher, there were 8 classes for the eighth grade
and the school was use 2013 Curriculum Kurikulum 2013. The school was use a book “When English Rings the Bell” given by the government because of the
exchanged curriculum. Then, the researcher asked which class that has the lowest score of English score and the teacher said that it was VIII C. From that interview,
it was found that the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Lumajang especially class VIII C, still had problem in learning vocabulary. She said that the students
were difficult to remember English vocabulary because in their daily activity all of the students used Javanese and Indonesian language rather than English.
To teach English vocabulary, the English teacher taught it integratively with other language skills but mostly with reading skill by giving the students a
text for them to learn English vocabulary. Sometimes, she asked the students to find difficult words in the text then asked them to find the meaning of the words
in the dictionary. The researcher also asked the strategy that was used to solve the problem and she said that she written some vocabularies with its meaning for the
students then she asked them to remember the words and then asked those words on another meeting.
Furthermore, the researcher asked about the use of teaching media in the teaching learning process. The English teacher said that she never used teaching
media in the beginning of the semester but she planned to teach writing by using banner to give the example of descriptive text. In addition, the researcher also
asked about the use of crossword puzzles as the teaching media in the classroom and she answered that she never used crossword puzzles because they are
sometime found in students’ textbooks. Then she gave a positive response when the researcher asked the permission to use crossword puzzle in the classroom to
teach vocabulary. At the end of interview, the researcher asked about standard score of English in that school, that was 75.
4.3.2 The Result of Documentation Documentation was used to get the supporting data about the list of the
names of the subjects. The subjects were the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Lumajang in the 20142015 academic year consisted of 32 students. Class VIII
C was chosen as the subjects of the research because their English mean score was the lowest among the other classes. The names of the subjects were enclosed in
Appendix 3.
4.4 Discussion
