Patiah. 2016. The Use of Crossword Puzzle to Improve Students’ Mastery in Subject-Verb Agreement (A Case Study at the Seventh Grade Students of MTs Al-Islamiyah SMIP 1946 Banjarmasin), Thesis. English Education Department, The Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training. Advisors: (I) Dr. Hj. Nida Mufidah, M. Pd, (II) Raida Asfihana, M.Pd.
Keywords: Crossword Puzzle,Subject-Verb Agreement, English
This thesis studied about the use of crossword puzzle to improve students’ mastery in subject-verb agreement (a case study at the seventh grade students of MTs Al-Islamiyah SMIP 1946 Banjarmasin). The problem statement are: 1) How does the teacher use the crossword puzzle to improve students’ mastery in subject-verb agreement at the seventh grade students of MTs Al-Islamiyah SMIP 1946 Banjarmasin? and 2) How is the students’ mastery in subject-verb agreement?
This research purposed to know the teacher use the crossword puzzle to improve students’ mastery in subject-verb agreement and to know the students mastery subject-verb agreement at the seventh grade students of MTs Al-Islamiyah SMIP 1946 Banjarmasin.
The subject of this research is the English teacher at MTs Al-Islamiyah SMIP 1946 Banjarmasin. While the object is amedia, which teachers’ used in teaching English subject-verb agreement at the seventh grade students’ of MTs Al-Islamiyah SMIP 1946 Banjarmasin, that media is crossword puzzle.To collect the data, writer used some techniques such as observation, test, and documentary. Then the data were collected is processed by using editing, coding, scoring, and data interpretation. Then all the data are analyzed descriptively and qualitatively and drawing conclusion.
The result of this research showed the students’ mastery in subject-verb agreement by using crossword puzzleat the seventh grade students of MTs Al-Islamiyah SMIP 1946 Banjarmasin. It can be seen from the result of mean score English subject-verb agreement test before and after learning by using crossword puzzle. The mean score of English subject-verb agreement test before using crossword puzzle is 67.5, while the mean score of English subject-verb agreement test after using crossword puzzle is 82.86.It meansthe use of crossword puzzle can improve the students’ mastery in English subject-verb agreement.