INCREASING LEARNING MOTIVATION IN ENGLISH VOCABULARY THROUGH JIGSAW PUZZLE

Abstract

Quite a number of students perceive English as a difficult subject, so they are less motivated to learn it. This happened to grade 2 SD Negeri Rorotan 01 Jakarta. Even though English is an important lesson and will continue to be studied until the next level of education. The purpose of this study was to increase student learning motivation to improve English vocabulary in a fun way through playing with jigsaw puzzles. The method used was a classroom action research method which consists of 2 cycles. Each cycle consists of 3 meetings. The hypothesis of this study was through learning by playing with jigsaw puzzle would increase student learning motivation to improve their English vocabulary. This research was conducted on grade 2 students of SD Negeri Rorotan 01 Jakarta. The study showed that an increasing in students' learning motivation to improve their English vocabulary. The results of the students' English vocabulary skills in the pre-cycle were only 44.64%. In the first cycle there was an increase of 27% by increasing to 71.68%. Furthermore, in the second cycle, there was an increasing of 13, 56%, became 85.24%. So it can be concluded that playing with jigsaw puzzle can increase the motivation to learn English vocabulary in grade 2 students at SD Negeri Rorotan 01 Jakarta.