TEACHER STRATEGIES IN TEACHING ENGLISH VOCABULARY TO YOUNG LEARNERS AT DIAMOND COURSE IN KRAKSAAN PROBOLINGGO

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TEACHER STRATEGIES IN TEACHING ENGLISH VOCABULARY TO YOUNG LEARNERS AT DIAMOND COURSE IN KRAKSAAN PROBOLINGGO

THESIS

This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education

by:

LORENTIA ALICA ABDI YOGA 201010100311180

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Alhamdulillahirrabbil‘alamin wassolatu wassalamu‘ala sayyidina

muhammadin wa’ala alihi wa sohbihi ajma’in. Praise be to the almighty Allah

SWT, the greatest creator of this universe who always gives strength and bless to the writer to finish this thesis. Shalawat and greeting may always be upon the holy prophet Muhammad SAW and his family.

First, the writer would like to express her highest gratitude to her first advisor Mrs. Dr. Sri Hartiningsih M.M who has devoted her time and energy through numerous inputs, correction, and continuous support. Then, to her second advisor Mrs. Nurakhfini Septiany, M.A, M.ED who has been very helpful, kind and passion in giving advises, ideas, and valuable time during the process of this thesis writing. Her special gratitude is delivered to Mrs. Iis and the entire students of English Diamond Course in Kraksaan Probolinggo who had been very helpful to the writer during the research process of this thesis.

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LIST OF APPENDIXES

Appendix 1 : Field note ... 36

Appendix 2 : Interviewed Guidance ... 39

Appendix 3 : Interview Transcripts ... 41

Appendix 4 : Letter ... 45

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1 CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

This chapter presents background of study, statement of problems, purpose of the study, significance of study, scope and limitation, and definition of key terms. Each section is presented as follow:

1.1Background of study

Nowdays, English in Indonesia has become a very important language. Teaching English in the early age is very important to develop the children’s

language competence especially in learning foreign language. When foreign language is teaching to young learners, it will effectively because they have a lot of opportunities to build up their personal ability in acquisition other language.

The importance skill that must be learned by young learners is vocabulary mastery. According to J. Harmer (1991), teaching vocabulary is an important area worthy of effort and investigation. It is more than just presenting and introducing new vocabulary to the learners. The teacher should be creative in choosing the materials and able to stimulate the students interest. The teacher needs some strategies to support the teacher in learning process. Therefore, teaching vocabulary is one of the important element of language. Vocabulary is the basic competence that must be reached by students in order to get other competence like reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

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2 difficult to master the other competence without mastering and understanding the vocabulary.

The young learners need teacher to help them in understanding of vocabulary. Teacher is the most important influence in solving the problem of young learners in studying of vocabulary mastery. Young learners was very difficult to understand the English lesson that the teacher give because they have not yet received English lesson previously

A previous research which was conducted by Alfitra Gaeda (2009) who found that using guessing word strategies in teaching English vocabulary made the transition to independent learning could be easier and more efficient. Another research was conducted by Edelma Concha Pique (2000), found that the synonym and identifying picture strategies will make students to think more interactive and interesting with the new words and it assist the students to grasp the meaning of the new words easily.

Based on the reason above, the researcher is interested to investigate what strategy used by the English teacher of Diamond Course in Kraksaan Probolinggo. The present study aims at knowing the teacher’s strategy of teaching vocabulary

especially for the young learners. 1.2 Statement of Problems

From the background of study above, the writer formulates the questions as follow:

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3 2. How are the strategies applied by English teacher in teaching

vocabulary at Diamond Course in Kraksaan Probolinggo ?

3. What difficulties does the teacher face by using strategy in teaching vocabulary at Diamond Course in Kraksaan Probolingo ?

1.3Purpose of Study

In accordance to the statement of the problems above, this study aimed:

1. To find out strategies used by the English teacher in teaching vocabulary at Diamond Course in Kraksaan Probolinggo.

2. To Find out how the strategies applied in teaching vocabulary at Diamond Course.

3. To find out the difficulties that the teacher faces by using the strategies in teaching vocabulary at Diamond Course in Kraksaan Probolinggo. 1.4Significance of Study

It is expected that the result of the study will help the English teachers to improve their skill in teaching vocabulary. It is also hoped that the result of this study can give contribution to the success of the teaching learning English at Diamond Course especially related to the effort of enriching students vocabulary in learning new vocabulary.

1.5The Scope and Limitation

The scope of this study will concentrate on the teacher strategies in teaching vocabulary and the writer limits her research as follows.

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4 b. This study is only dealing with the teacher strategies in teaching vocabulary to young learners at Diamond Course in Kraksaan Probolinggo.

1.6Definition of Key Terms

a. Strategies is a plan, a “how” a means of getting fom here to there

(Henry,1994).

b. According to Brown (2000), teaching is guiding and facilitating learning, enabling the learners to learn, setting the conditions for learning.

c. Teaching strategy is a specific method used by the teacher for approaching a problem or task, modes of operation for achieving a particular end, planned designs for controlling and manipulating certain information (Brown,2000:113).

d. English is international language in the world and its content by word and word. It also the name of city in England (Karnarman,1987). e. Vocabulary is a collection or list of words, usually in alphabetical

order and defined (Barnhart,2008).

TEACHER STRATEGIES IN TEACHING ENGLISH VOCABULARY TO YOUNG LEARNERS AT DIAMOND COURSE IN KRAKSAAN PROBOLINGGO