INCREASING WORD COMPREHENSION BY USING CROSSWORD PUZZLE GAME AT THE EIGHT GRADES OF SMPN 273 JAKARTA

Word comprehension is the essential learning for students to learn English well and correctly, because it way improve students’ vocabulary mastery can practice ability in understand reading text correctly. The problem writer had outlined this research deals largely with study of reading. subject was twenty-eight at eighth grades SMPN 273 Jakarta. design classroom action research. It conducted two cycles; cycle I done meeting II meetings. In were given pre-test before treatment post-test after treatment. aimed find out whether used crossword puzzle game technique could increase word mastery. data collection observation, field note, test, documentation. purposes are know how far comprehend being criteria who got score least 70. class be said successful achieving material if 85% that 70 they activation more than 50%. average 65 or 10 pass score, 1 70.7 16 good 2 77.8 24 score. This fact showed teaching by using