The effect of word search puzzle to students’ vocabulary mastery at grade VII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan

This research discussed about the effect of Word search puzzle to students’ vocabulary Mastery at Grade VII SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. The problems of the research were the students cannot used Vocabulary correctly and uninterested teaching strategy. As the result, the students are difficult in understanding vocabulary and the students, so lazy in opening the dictionary. The aim of this research was to find out the effect of word search puzzle to students’ vocabulary Mastery at grade VII SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. This research applied experimental research. The population of this research was the VII grade of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. The total of population were twelve classes. Then, the sample of the research was 2 classes, experiment class (VII1 and control class VII-3). It was taken after conducting normality and homogeneity test. To collect the data, researcher used test for measuring students’ vocabulary mastery. To analysis the data, the researcher used t-test. Based on the result of the research, researcher found that the result of experimental class was higher than control class (80.95>75.85), and the score of tcount was bigger than ttable (6.98> 2.021). It means that the hypothesis alternative (Ha) was accepted. It was concluded that there was significant effect of Word Search Puzzle to Students’ Vocabulary Mastery at grade VII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan