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A
STUDY
ON
THE
USE
OF
TEACHING
MEDIA
IN
TEACHING
VOCABULARY
OF
PART
OF
HUMAN
BODY
FOR
FOURTH
GRADE
STUDENTS
OF
SDN
SALAMROJO
1
NGANJUK
THESIS
by
:
Didik
Purnomo
201310100312205
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE
EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT
FACULTY
OF
TEACHER
TRAINING
AND
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY
OF
MUHAMMADIYAH
MALANG
MOTTO
“ BE A GOOD PEOPLE, AND GOOD PEOPLE WILL COME TO YOU” “BE HUMBLE, BE KIND, BE PATIENCE, BE STRONG”
(Free)
To Allah SWT
Muhammad Rasulullah SAW
To my beloved parents
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
COVER PAGE………i
APPROVAL ...………...ii
APPROVAL PAGE...………...iii
LETTERS OF AUTHENTICITY...………...iv
MOTTO...v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT...vi
ABSTRACT...vii
TABLE OF CONTENTS...vii
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION...1
I.1 Background of The Study...1
I.2 Statement of Problems...5
I.3 Purposes of the Study...6
I.4 Significance of the Study...7
I.5 Scope and Limitations...7
I.6 Definition of the Key Terms...7
II. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE...8
II.1 Teaching Vocabulary...8
II.1.1 Nature of Vocabulary...8
II.1.2 Kinds of Vocabulary...9
II.1.3 Importance of Vocabulary...12
II.1.4 Teaching Vocabulary to Young Learners...12
II.2 Characteristics of Young Learners...15
II.3 Definition of Media...17
II.4 Kinds of Media to Teach Vocabulary...17
III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY...21
III.1 Research Design...21
III.2 Subject of The Study...20
III.3 Research Instrument...22
III.3.1Interview...22
III.3.2 Observation...24
III.4 Data Collection...24
III.5 Data Analysis...25
IV. FINDING AND DISCUSSION...27
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IV.1.1The Kinds of Teaching Media Used by English Teacher
to Teach Vocabulary of Part of Human body...27
IV.1.1.1 Blackboard...28
IV.1.1.2 Pictures of Part of Human Body...28
IV.1.1.3 Real object ( StudentsWere Involved as Models or Realia)...29
IV.1.1.4 Scrambled Pieces of Alphabet Card and Portable Board...29
IV.1.1.5 Notebook Connected to LCD Projector and Speaker...29
IV.1.2 The Implementation of the Media by Teacher in Teaching Vocabulary of Part of Human Body...30
IV.1.3 Problems in Using Media...32
IV.1.4 The Way of Teacher Overcomes the Problems...32
IV.2 Research Discussion...33
V. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION...36
V.1 Conclusion...36
V.2 Suggestions...37
V.2.1 Suggestions for the English Teacher...37
V.2.2 Suggestions for the Headmaster of School...38
V.2.3 Suggestions for the Future Researcher...38
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION This chapter presents and discusses the background of the study,statement of problems, purposes of the study, significance of the study, scope and limitations of study, and definition of the key terms. 1.1 Background of the Study English is one of international languages, which is used throughout the world. Additionaly, English is used in many sectors such a Politics, Economics, Social and Education. Therefore, English as a language in international communication is clearly needed by many learners to interact in a variety of circumstances. Knowing that English is very important, children must learn English starting from very early age.
In general people, from three years to teenage ( including students of
elementary school) have a sensitivity in recognizing language even in bilingual
family,so that they will change easily from one language to another. That is why,
many people believe that children will learn English faster than adult. Another
important reason why English has got to be taught to the elementary school
students because children have the capacity for learning and acquiring a new
language English easier, as stated by Dunn, Opal:
Despite of the importances, in Indonesia especially, English is considered as a
difficult subject for the Indonesian students because English is completely
different from Indonesian language being look at from the system of word
formation, tense, etc. Alex has stated,
“Some languages, of course, are different from other languages, whether in the context of time (tenses), word formation, etc. For example, English is different from Indonesian mainly in the context of tense and word formation. In English, the tense can be identified just by looking at the verbs used while in Indonesian, it cannot be identified just by looking at the verbs used. We need to add the specific time signal to make one sentence in Indonesian known when the event happens. The key difference between English and Indonesian also happens in the context of word formation, especially in the phrase structure. In translating the Indonesian phrase "baju biru" into English, of course, cannot be directly translated to "dress blue" as "baju" means "dress" and "biru" means "blue". It's beyond that as there's a rule in each language. We are supposed to translate the phrase to "blue dress" not "dress blue" as the
language structure between English and Indonesian is often inverted.” (Alex,
2012)
In studying English, as same with learning another language, students have to
deal with four basic language skills, divided into listening, speaking, reading, and
writing. Later, students have to deal with three basic language
unitspronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. As stated by Qi Pan (2011),
“Human being’s language is based on the vocabulary, which consists of three
basic language units—pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar”. Vocabulary
which is one of the three basic language units is need to be mastered in order to make a good communication with others. The lack of mastering vocabulary will result in influent communication, disadvantages of using good words and idioms based on the situation, and for the worst, children will face difficulties in following the teachinglearning process in class.In addition, it could be result in reducing the confidence of the students to learn English.
A lot of factors affect the succes of teaching learning process, including
the factors that should be considered is the teacher’s qualities. (College, 2013),
stated that there are several qualities that teacher needs to have, which will be
described as follows:
a) a desire to educate young people and act as a positive role model
b) an ability to work with students from diverse backgrounds and
abilities c) interest in helping people learn d) enthusiasm about a subject e) strong interpersonal and organizational skills f) the ability to work unsupervised g) creativity, energy and patience h) digital learning tools and technologies From the former explanation, it is implied that good teacher must have several
unique qualities, included being creative. When only limited in using textbooks
and oral explanations, elementary students will get bored easily if there are no
variations teachinglearning process.However, if the process which is given by the
teacher makes them feel bored, this method will reduce their anxiety to learn new
vocabulary. Mostly, teacher is lesscreative by only explains the meaning,
definition, and spelling from textbooks, without any aids to support the material.
Therefore, students only learn new vocabulary based on those two things, which
are textbooks and teacher explanations.This method result in a disadvantage
because using textbooks is only as good as the teacher who uses it. While in some
cases, teachers overrely on textbooks and don't consider other aids or other
Therefore, to make the material distrIbution being succesful, attractive and
interactive, teaching aids is importantly needed in teachinglearning process.
Teaching mediais an effective aid to help teachereasier to distrIbute material
to the students. By using teaching media, teacher can change the situation inside
the classroom,which result in creating an active interaction between teacher and
students. In addition, the student will enjoy the teachinglearning process.
Teaching media will help teacher makes students have interest in learning English,
including about increasing their vocabulary. By using teaching media, teacher can
teach material that gives advantages in improving the student’s vocabularies and
makes students feel that English is not difficult. For example, teacher can teach
vocabulary about the basic vocabulary related with their daily lifes, such as family
members, occupation, or their part of body.
From the explanation above, the writer is interested and the tittle of this study
1.2 Statement of Problems
Based on the background of the study, the reseacher concludes several
problems which will be the focus of this research, as follows:
1. What are kinds of media used in teaching vocabulary toward fourth grade
students of SDN Salamrojo1?
2. How are the media used and implemented by the English teacher in
teaching vocabulary toward fourth grade students SDN Salamrojo1?
3. What are the problems that faced by the teacher when implementing the
media in teaching vocabulary toward fourth grade students SDN
Salamrojo1?
4. How are the teacher overcomes the problems that faced by the teacher
when implementing the media in teaching vocabulary toward fourth grade
students SDN Salamrojo1?
1.3 Purposes of the Study
The purposes of study is aimed to answer the questions related with the
statement of problems. The purposes will be described as follows:
1. To find out the teaching mediawhich are used in teaching vocabulary of
part of human body for fourth grade students of SDN Salamrojo1.
2. To describe how the teaching mediaare used and implemented by teacher
in teaching vocabulary of part of human body for fourth grade students
SDN Salamrojo 1 – Nganjuk.
3. To find out what are the problems that faced by the teacher when
implementing the media in teaching vocabulary toward fourth grade
4. How the teacher overcomes the problems that are faced by the teacher
when implementing the media in teaching vocabulary toward fourth grade
students SDN Salamrojo 1?
1.4 Significance of the Study
This study is intended to give some contrIbutions to:
1. The English teacher
After the research, the researcher hopes that the English teacher will be able
to explore their creations or inovations to make or to find teaching media in
teaching English especially in teaching vocabulary, so that teacherfeels
more enjoy and easy in teachinglearning process.
2. The future researcher
It is hoped that after the research,the result can be used as reference for
those who want to conduct a research related with teaching media in
teaching English.
1.5 Scope and Limitations
The scope for the study is the teaching mediawhich are used by teacher in
teaching vocabulary forfourth grade students of SDN Salamrojo1– Nganjuk,
especially of concrete noun (part of human body). While the study itself is only
limited to the analysis and the implementation of media in teaching vocabulary
1.6 Definition of the Key Terms
To the clarify the better understanding of the study, the researcher defines
several term as follows:
1. Teaching Media: media are physical means which are used to send
messages to the students and stimulate them to learn. (Briggs, 1970)
2. Vocabulary: microcosm of human consciusness. ( Vygotsky, as cited in
