TEACHERS’ TECHNIQUES IN TEACHING VOCABULARY FOR THE FIRST GRADERS OF LABORATORIUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SALATIGA
Yunita Natalia Dwi Wibowowati
Abstract
Learning vocabulary is important in communication. Without learning vocabulary and understand the words we cannot express the ideas and communicate freely. Since teaching children is not easy and need special teacher, the teachers must be creative in teaching English vocabulary. In this case, vocabulary becomes the important things to learn for the basic of communication. Based on the reason above, this study was conducted to find out the techniques of Laboratorium Elementary English teachers in teaching English vocabulary. The subjects for this study were two teachers and their students at Laboratorium Elementary School in Salatiga. Some classroom observations were conducted during teaching vocabulary and to obtain more data, I interviewed the teachers. The result of this study showed that there were seven teaching techniques used by the English teachers in the classroom. The purpose of those techniques is to teach vocabulary especially to unify the concepts of materials which are being learned by the students. Another finding revealed that almost all the English teachers at Laboratorium Elementary School assumed that teaching vocabulary using different techniques in a fun way was easier for the students to learn new words. Since the students were still young and have different characteristics, the teachers decided to use many kinds of techniques to make the students understand and try to use the new words to communicate with others. The students were really interested and easy to learn the new words through many kinds of techniques which given by the teachers.
