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TECHNIQUE OF TEACHING VOCABULARY USED BY THE
TEACHER IN SDN 01 SIDOREJO, PROBOLINGGO
THESIS
By:
IKA NUR AZIZAH
08360063
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMADIYAH MALANG
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TECHNIQUE OF TEACHING VOCABULARY USED BY THE
TEACHER IN SDN 01 SIDOREJO, PROBOLINGGO
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve
Sarjana Degree in English Education
By:
IKA NUR AZIZAH
08360063
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMADIYAH MALANG
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MOTTO AND DEDICATION
MOTTO
“J ika kamu percaya pada dirimu, tidak ada yang dapat
menghentikan mu untuk mencapai apa yang kamu inginkan.K arena
di setiapke sulitan pasti A L L A H memberikan jalan ”
" D a n r en d a h k a n l a h d i r i m u t er h a d a p m er ek a ber d u a
d en ga n p en u h k esa y a n ga n d a n u ca p k a n l a h : "W a h a i T u h a n k u , k a si h i l a h m er ek a k ed u a n y a , seba ga i m a n a m er ek a
ber d u a t el a h m en d i d i k a k u w a k t u k eci l " (QS. A l -I sr a '17:24)
“
D ream what you dare to dream, go where you want to go, be what
you want to be”
DEDICATION
This thesis dedicated to:
My beloved father Ali Wafa and mother Murnati for their
praying, support and love.
My beloved sister Badriatun, for their good advises and support.
My all big family in Sidorejo - Probolinggo
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Alhamdulillah, first and foremost the writer wants to praise and grateful to Allah SWT for giving health, affection and blessing and also sholawat to his prophet Muhammad SAW for guiding her from darkness to the brightness. The writer also would like to express her deepest gratitude to Drs, Erly Wahyuni, M.Si her first advisor for his kindness in giving suggestion, guidance and advice during the consultation period and comments and corrections during finishing this thesis; Rina Wahyu Setyaningrum,M.Ed her second advisor for giving her the construction comments in making the thesis better and for the motivation and support; and to all lectures and examiners at the English Department, for teaching her a lot of things in the course they taught.
Her biggest appreciation refers to her family, her beloved mother Murnati, father Ali Wafa, her sister oliv Quna, mbk Nopi, Tri, Amel, Citra, Alif, Luhlu and her brother Didin, who always pray and support her in happiness and sorrow and give love, support and motivation.
Finally, her sincere gratitude goes to everybody that cannot be mentioned one by one who had helped her finish the thesis. Thanks a lot for the supports, advices, criticisms, and jokes. Eventually, may Allah SWT always keep them in save and peace condition and also give them the appropriate rewards, AMIN!
Malang, 16 April 2014 The Writer,
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1.4 Significance of Study ... 4
1.5 Scope and Limitation... 5
1.6 Definition of The Key Terms... 5
CHAPTER IIREVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE ... 6
2.2Teaching English to Young Learners ... 6
2.2 Characteristic of Young Learners ... 7
2.3Technique of Teaching Vocabulary ... 8
2.3.1 Techniques of Teaching Vocabulary Using Games ... 9
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2.3.3 Technique of Teaching Vocabulary Using Role play ... 11
2.3.4 Technique of Teaching Vocabulary Using Listen and Do ... 12
2.3.5 Technique of Teaching Vocabulary Using Song ... 12
CHAPTER IIIRESEARCH METHODOLOGY ... 14
CHAPTER IVFINDINGS AND DISCUSSION ... 19
4.1 Findings ... 19
4.1.1 The Teacher’s Techniques in Teaching Vocabulary ... 19
4.1.2 The Way the English Teacher Applied the Techniques in Teaching Vocabulary ... 20
4.2 Discussions ... 34
CHAPTER VCONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ... 36
5.1 Conclusions ... 36
5.2 Suggestion... 37 REFERENCES
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Cameron, Lynne. 2001.Teaching Languages to Young Learners. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. Creswell, John W.2009. Research Design:
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1 CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents (1) background of study, (2) problem of study, (3) purpose of study, (4) significance of study, (5) scope and limitation, and (6) definition of key term. Each section is presented as follows.
1.1 Background of The Study
In this globalization era, all nations need to communicate each other. To be able to cummunicate with other countries we need English as a global language.Nowadays, English is very important, is used as a meant of international communication. As the consequent English is important to be studied, it is better to be taught in theearly time to the learner, moreover English in Elementary School has become a subject with the position as a local subject. According to Education and Culture in Suyanto (2007: 2), states that an elementary school can include extra lesson in its curriculum. It means that teaching English can be conducted in the elementary school.
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When children are having fun, they usually want to continue the activities. Children also need individual attention and support from the teacher to
make them feel more confident and secure about learning English,so that they felt enjoy and happy when studied English.
As a teacher, teaching English in elementary school is not easy like teaching adult students. Here, teacher needs enough preparation, the various techniques, the media, act, and the teacher must be creative to make the students interest and vocabulary to encourage their comprehension grow well.
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techniques are the way for making the learning process more active and helpful for the teacher to manage the classroom.
The statement above is supported by Anand (2002: 3), who investigated the technique of teaching vocabulary to children at SDN 1 Mulyo Agung Jetis, Malang. He found that the effective teaching techniques of vocabulary are guessing picture, asking and answering questions and singing a song, among those three techniques, students are interested in singing a song. They were very enthusiastic because they were free to express their styles and they felt happy. Besides, Basuki (2006:2), who investigated the technique of teaching vocabulary to the third year students of SDN Bangselok 111 Sumenep Madura, found out that the effective teaching techniques of vocabulary was include the translation technique, visual technique, the repetition technique, and the game technique. That technique is very important because students could enjoy the material presented. In short, teaching vocabulary by using various techniques are able to make a student’s enjoy the material presented and get easier to understand.
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1.2 Statements of The Problem
Based on the background of the study,the problems are formulated as follows:
1. What techniques are used by the teacher at SDN 01 Sidorejo, Probolinggo? 2. How does the English teacher apply the techniques in teaching vocabulary at
SDN 01 Sidorejo, Probolinggo?
1.3 Purpose of The Study
Related to the statements of problem, the purposes of this study are:
1. To know the techniques used by the English teacherat SDN 01 Sidorejo, Probolinggo.
2. To describe how the teacher apply those techniques in teaching vocabulary at SDN 01 Sidorejo,Probolinggo.
1.4 Significance of The Study
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1.5 Scope and Limitation
This study will be focused on the teaching techniques used by the English teacher in teaching vocabulary at SDN 01 Sidorejo,Probolinggo. In addition, this study is limited to the fourth grade students at SDN 01 Sidorejo, Probolinggo.
1.6 Definition of The Key Terms
1. Teaching is showing or helping someone to learn how to do something, providing with knowledge, giving instruction, guiding in the study of something, causing to know or understand (Brown, 2000:7).
2. Technique is a wide variety of exercises, activities, or task used in the language classroom for realizing lesson objectives (Brown,2001:16). 3. Vocabulary is the words that need to be enriched and established as they
