adverbs. By providing the text as a context, the students also learn how the meaning of a word may change when it is combined with another word.
2.11 Vocabulary and Recount Text
Recount texts are texts that are written to tell past events. This type of texts uses past tense. We can find the use of past form of verbs as the knowledge of
vocabulary that is important to learn. There are two types of verbs that change differently when they are used in the past form namely regular verbs and irregular
verbs. Instead of that we can also find the use of qualitative adjectives and quantitative adjectives, adverbs of manner, adverbs of time, adverbs of place,
common nouns, proper nouns and some other vocabularies. The knowledge of the vocabularies used in this text may help the learners to
further comprehend the sentences, the paragraphs and finally comprehend the whole text.
2.12 Research Hypothesis
By considering the related literature review explained above, the hypothesis of this research was There is a significant effect of using Team Games
Tournament TGT Technique on the Eighth Grade Students’ Vocabulary Achievement of Recount Texts at SMPN 09 Jember in the 20152016 academic
year.
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CHAPTER 3. RESEARCH METHOD
This chapter discusses the research methods used in this research. It covers the research design, operational definitions of the terms, area determination
method, respondent determination method, data collection methods, and data analysis method.
3.1 Research Design
This was a Quasi Experimental research, post-test only design with non- equivalent groups. Quasi Experimental is not a true experimental research, this
research does not require the researcher to pick samples from each group of population to form the control group and the experimental group, this research
uses the intact group that already exist in the population to be labeled as the control group and the experimental group. This research design was chosen since
the true experimental research was not possible to be done. Post-test only design was chosen because this research focuses on the result of the teaching and
learning process so that he result of the research was the comparison between the mean scores of the control group and the experimental group after the treatment, it
was not the comparison between the previous score before the treatment and the score after the treatment. Non-equivalent group design was chosen since the
researcher could not control the variables or the condition that made the two groups equivalent.
The objective of this research was to investigate whether or not there was a significant effect of using Team Games Tournament technique on the eighth grade
students’ vocabulary achievement of recount text at SMPN 09 Jember in the 20152016 academic year.
This research involved two groups of students, they were the experimental group and the control group. The experimental group received the treatment. It
was taught vocabulary by using TGT technique. Meanwhile, the control group was taught vocabulary by using another cooperative learning technique that was
pairing technique. The vocabulary test was administered to both the experimental
