THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ACROSTIC POEM TO IMPROVE THE MASTERY OF ENGLISH VOCABULARY OF THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS (A Classroom Action Research in SMP N 1 Jekulo Kudus In Academic Year 2013/2014)

Vocabulary is one of the important English components because without understand it well, the students will get difficulties in studying English. The condition of teaching learning process in SMP N 1 Jekulo Kudus, the teacher does not use any technique to teach English vocabulary. The teacher only asks the students to memorize some vocabularies and gives the meaning of some vocabulary directly while delivering the material. On this condition the writer tries to apply Acrostic poem as the technique to teach vocabulary. An Acrostic poem is blank poem in which the letters of the concept, label, key word or a topic begin with words, phrases, or sentences that are continues from one line to another. The objective of this research is to describe whether Acrostic poem can improve the mastery of English vocabulary of the Eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Jekulo Kudus in academic year 2013/2014. This research is classroom action research. This research is conducted in SMP N 1 Jekulo Kudus which VIII F in the second semester as the subject of this research. The research consists of two cycles. There are two meetings in each cycle which consist of four stage, those are planning, acting, observing and reflecting. In collecting the data the writer uses three instruments, those are: observation, evaluation test, and questionnaire. The result of the research showed that the implementation of Acrostic poem in teaching English vocabulary is successful to improve the mastery of English vocabulary of the eighth grade students in SMP N 1 Jekulo Kudus in academic year 2013/2014. The mastery of English vocabulary of the eighth grade students is improved from cycle 1 to cycle 2. So, the writer ends the action process at cycle 2. In cycle 1, the average score is 73.8. The category is good. In cycle 2 the mastery of English vocabulary of the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Jekulo Kudus in academic year 2013/2014 improves from cycle 1 with the average 73.8 become 85.3. The category is excellent. Based on the result of questionnaire, most of students got positive response they felt after experiencing increasing their English vocabulary mastery by using Acrostic poem. They felt fun and liked in learning english vocabulary by using Acrostic poem. The students enjoy and enthusiasm in learning english vocabulary using Acrostic poem. Based on the result of the research above, it is expected that Acrostic poem can be used as alternative teaching technique in teaching English. The English teachers should be more creative and innovative in using various kinds of interesting teaching techniques. So, the students will be more interested to learn English. Then, they will feel fun and joyful in learning