Abstract
Teaching English in Pabelan is challenging since Pabelan is a rural area which has less facilities to support learning process. Meanwhile, in teaching vocabulary, teachers need to use an Audio Visual aids (AVAs) to help them. Considering the importance of vocabulary in learning English process, this research conducted to describe and analyze what techniques were used by teachers to teach vocabulary in Pabelan elementary school. The participants in this study were three English teachers from three elementary schools in Kecamatan Pabelan. The reason why the participants were taken from three elementary schools was because in rural area elementary school, they only have one English teacher in each school and even one of the teachers that I observed teaches English in several schools in the same period. The data were collected through classroom observation and semi-structured interview which allowed the participant to share their thought and experience of teaching vocabulary in Pabelan. The findings revealed that the teachers mostly used clue, hints and realia. The reason why they used those kinds of techniques was because those techniques were easier for them to introduce vocabulary and the lack of supporting facilities to teach vocabulary in rural elementary school.
