THE EFFECT OF CROSSWORD PUZZLE ON STUDENTS LEARNING OUTCOME AND ACADEMIC ENGLISH MASTERY

The objectives of this study were to find out whether Crossword puzzles significantly affect: (1) students’ learning outcome(2) students’ ability in answering
question based on Bloom’s taxonomy of cognitive domain and (3) students’ academic English mastery. This quasi experiment was carried out on two classes of Grade eleven
students in SMA Negeri 1 Medan. These two classes were randomly assigned based on the cluster random. The data for students’ learning outcome was derived from multiple
choices test, while essay test was also given to students to measure their academic English mastery.When the data was normally distributed, independent t-test is employed
for data analysis, while Mann Whitney U-test is used when the data were not normally distributed.Students who were assigned with Crossword puzzle (90,67 ± 7,14) have
significantly higher learning outcome than those who were given with regular assignment 83,81 ± 6,129, (t = 3,430; P = 0,001).Students also have significantly higher score in C4 to C6 of Bloom Taxonomy when compared to students who did regular assignments, C4 (U = 449; P = 0,000), C5 (U = 374; P =0,002), C6 (U = 315; P = 0,039). While Students’ academic English Mastery was better in three aspects (writing, spelling, and vocabulary use) compared to students who were given with regular assignments.