The Descriptions of the Treatment The Results of Supporting Data

CHAPTER 4 RESEARCH RESULT AND DISCUSSION

This chapter presents the description of the treatment, the result of the supporting data, the result of homogeneity test, the analysis of try out test, the result of primary data, the hypothesis verification, the degree of relative effectiveness, and the discussion. Further discussion about the results of this research is presented below.

4.1 The Descriptions of the Treatment

In this research, there were two classes that were chosen as the respondents. They were the experimental group VIII D and the control group VIII E. As stated in Chapter III that the experimental group got the treatment that was it was taught vocabulary by using Crossword Puzzles, while the control group got no treatment or it was taught vocabulary without using Crossword Puzzles. The teaching learning process was conducted in two meetings for each group during this research. The schedule of administering the research treatment can be seen in the following table. Table 4.1 The Schedule of the Research Activities No. Activities Dates 1. Interviewing the English teacher August 25 th , 2014 2. Taking the documentation November 15 th , 2014 3. Administering the homogeneity test November 17 th -19 th , 2014 4. Analyzing the results of homogeneity test November 20 th , 2014 5. Teaching the experimental group November 24 th , 27 th , 2014 6. Teaching the control group November 26 th , 27 th , 2014 7. Administering try out test December 2 nd , 2014 8. Analyzing the results of the try out test December 2 nd , 2014 34 9. Administering the vocabulary post-test December 4 th , 2014 10. Analyzing the results of the vocabulary post-test December 5 th , 2014

4.2 The Results of Supporting Data

The supporting data of this research were obtained from the interview with the English teacher and documentation. 4.2.1 The Result of Interview As a part of the preliminary study, the interview was conducted with the English teacher of the eighth grade students of Mts Kebunrejo Banyuwangi on August 25 th , 2014. The English teacher informed that she taught English 5x40 minutes in a week for each class of the eighth grade students. She taught English twice in a week. The curriculum that is applied for the eighth grade students in Mts kebunrejo Banyuwangi is the 2006 Institutional Based Curriculum. The English teacher used some books in teaching English to the students, such as worksheet LKS, “English on Sky” published by Erlangga, and “Flying Start” published by Esis. From the interview, it was known that she taught vocabulary to the students by asking the students to find the difficult words and then memorizing the words. Further, she confirmed that she never used Crossword Puzzles as the media in teaching vocabulary because it needs time to conduct or to make the Crossword Puzzles. 4.2.2 The Result of Documentation The documentation in this research was used to get the supporting data about the number and the names of the research respondents. The total number of the eighth grade students of Mts Kebunrejo Banyuwangi was 236 which consisted of six classes. The distribution of the students can be seen in the following table. Table 4.2 The Distribution of the Total Number of the Students No. Class Male Female Total 1. VIII A 34 - 34 2. VIII B 37 - 37 3. VIII C 36 - 36 4. VIII D 38 - 38 5. VIII E - 46 46 6. VIII F - 45 45 Total 145 91 236 Source: MTs Kebunrejo Banyuwangi Document The total number of the research respondents was 236 students. The number of the respondents of the experimental group was 38 students, while the number of the respondents of the control group was 46 students.

4.3 The Results of Homogeneity Test