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ABSTRACT
Tugas Akhir ini saya buat berdasarkan kesulitan yang saya alami selama menjalani proses magang di SDN Sirna Sari Pangalengan. Selama mengajar di SDN SIRNASARI, saya ditugaskan untuk mengajar semua siswa dari kelas 1 sampai dengan kelas 6. Tidak hanya itu, selain mengajar saya juga ditugaskan untuk membantu kegiatan di kantor sekolah, seperti mengetik berkas-berkas sekolah atau surat-surat penting lainnya. Namun kesulitan yang saya alami adalah mengajar seorang murid kelas 2 yang sulit menghafal kosakata bahasa Inggris. Oleh karena itu, saya mengangkat topik mengenai kesulitan saya dalam menangani seorang murid dikelas 2 yang sulit menghafal kosakata bahasa Inggris. Penyebab dari permasalahan saya ialah, kurangnya pengalaman yang saya miliki sebagai pengajar, saya tidak menggunakan teknik yang kreatif dalam menyampaikan materi pengajaran dan saya tidak memberikan motivasi kepada murid tersebut. Dampak yang ditimbulkan dari kesulitan saya menangani murid yang mempunyai masalah dalam menghafal kosakata bahasa Inggris adalah saya menggunakan banyak waktu di kelas hanya kepada murid tersebut, kesabaran saya menjadi hilang dan murid tersebut mendapatkan nilai yang jelek.
Saya telah menemukan tiga solusi yang berpotensi untuk
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A. Background of the Study B. Identification of the Problem C. Objectives and Benefits of the Study D. Description of the Institution E. Method of the Study F. Limitation of the Study G. Organization of the Term Paper CHAPTER II. PROBLEM ANALYSIS………7
B. INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT I C. INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT II
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Vocabulary is an important thing when learning a foreign language,
especially when learning English language. It is important because the more
words one knows, the better one will be able to understand what one hears
and reads in English; furthermore, learning vocabulary needs a good memory
in order for learners to be able to use the vocabulary in communication. As
Oanh says, “memorization seems to be a valid learning strategy, provided that memorization is used appropriately to help students internalize what they
have learned to apply in actual communication” (par. 2). Thus, the students
who are good in memorizing English vocabulary will have more advantages
than the students who are not good in memorizing.
The topic of this term paper is “I had difficulty in teaching a second-grade
student who had a problem in memorizing English vocabulary at SD Sirna
Sari Pangalengan”. Based on my experience during my internship in SDN
Sirna Sari Pangalengan, I found that there was a student who found it difficult
the principal of SD Sirna Sari, the goal of English for the second-grader is the
students will be able to answer some basic English vocabulary on the tests
correctly. Thus, as the student found it difficult to memorize the English words,
she had difficulty in getting good marks in the English subject.
No matter what I tried to do to help her memorize the words, nothing
seemed to be successful. Although I gave her extra assistance during the
lesson and I spent more time helping her than the other students, it was still
really difficult for her to memorize the vocabulary. Therefore, I found that it
was not easy to teach vocabulary to the student who had difficulty in
memorizing the words. The vocabulary that I was teaching to the student is
the parts of the body
Thus, I decided to discuss how to teach vocabulary to the second-grade
student who had difficulty in memorizing the words at SD Sirna Sari
Pangalengan. Hopefully, through this paper, I can find out the causes and the
effects of the problem. On top of that, I can find out the solutions to the
problem. I will present the analysis in the subsequent chapters.
B. Identification of the Problem
The analysis of my problem is formulated in the following questions:
1. Why did I find difficulty in teaching a second-grade student who had a
problem in memorizing the English vocabulary at SD Sirna Sari?
2. How did the problem affect the teaching and learning process in
second-grade English class at SD Sirna Sari Pangalengan ?
C. Objectives and Benefits of the Study
The first objective of the study is to find the causes of my difficulty in
teaching vocabulary to a second-grade student who had difficulty in
memorizing the vocabulary at SD Sirna Sari Pangalengan. The second
objective is to find the effects of my difficulty in teaching vocabulary to a
second-grade who had difficulty in memorizing the vocabulary at SD Sirna
Sari Pangalengan. The third objective is to find the best solutions to overcome
my difficulty in teaching vocabulary to the student. Hopefully by writing this
term paper, I can learn how to teach vocabulary effectively to second-grade
students and also improve my teaching abilities. For the teacher at SD Sirna
Sari Pangalengan, I hope the information can be applied and help them to
become better teachers. For the readers, I hope this term paper will become
an optional reference and give them insights on the topic.
D. Description of the Institution
Based on the profile of SD Sirna Sari Pangalengan, the school was
established in 1976. The location of the school is at jln Sirna Sari, Desa Pulo
Sari, kecamatan Pangalengan, West Java. SD Sirna Sari Pangalengan has
eight teachers, one librarian, one administrative staff and a principal. The
vision of the school is to make the students have faith, have a sense of caring
for the environment and have a good life. The school also has some missions,
which are maximizing religious education, both theory and practice, providing
the teaching of Mathematics and Science, organizing cultural arts education,
both on a local and national level, and organizing physical education, both at
E. Method of the Study
I used some resources to support the analysis of this paper. First of all, I
attained some data from the Internet and the library. Second, I took the data
from an interview with the teacher and principal at SD Sirna Sari
Pangalengan. In addition, I took some data from my journal that describe my
experiences during my internship at SD Sirna Sari Pangalengan from January
6 until February 8, 2014.
F. Limitation of the Study
In this research, the subjects are me as the teacher and a student in the
second-grade at SD Sirna Sari Pangalengan. The respondents of the
interview are Ms. Buntari Lasmiana, S.pd, M.M as the principal of SD Sirna
Sari Pangalengan and Ms. Tini as the teacher of second grade at SD Sirna
Sari Pangalengan. The focus of this study is my difficulty in handling a second
grader who had a problem in memorizing English words.
G. Organization of the Term Paper
The first part of this term paper is the Abstract, the overall summary of the
final paper in Bahasa Indonesia. The second part is the Declaration of
Originality, then the next parts are Acknowledgements and the Table of
Contents. Chapter One is the Introduction, containing Background of the
Study, Identification of the Problem, Objectives and Benefits of the Study,
Description of the Institution, Method of the Study, Limitation of the Study, and
Furthermore, Chapter Two describes the causes and effects of my problem.
Chapter Three is Potential Solutions. It contains some ways to overcome the
problem, along with the potential negative and positive effects. Chapter Four
is the Conclusion of all the chapters. The last part is the Bibliography and
Appendices, which contain the flowchart and the transcription of the
CHAPTER IV
CONCLUSION
The problem of my term paper is I had difficulty in teaching a
second-grade student who had a problem in memorizing English vocabulary at SD
Sirna Sari Pangalengan. There are three causes of the problem, including I
had lack of experience in teaching vocabulary, I did not provide any creative
activities to teach vocabulary and I did not give the student a motivation to
learn harder through rewards. The effects of my problem is I had to give more
time to the student and less time for other students, I lost my temper and she
got bad result. There are three potential solutions to solve the problem. The
first potential solution is I should use fun activities to teach, such us word
games, songs and pictures. The second potential solution is I will give the
student extra tutorials after class. The third potential solutionof my problem is
I will use repetition as my teaching technique in teaching vocabulary.
Based on the analysis in the previous chapters, I would like to choose all
three of my solutions to solve the problem. The first solution is I will use fun
the second-grade seem to like fun activities; thus, using fun activities to teach
vocabulary to the student will be more efficient to help the student memorize
the English vocabulary. The second chosen solution is giving the student
extra tutorials after school. Giving extra tutorial to the student after school not
only could help the student to memorize the words easily but also it could
make me know why the student finds it hard to memorize the English
vocabulary. By knowing what the student main problem is, I can apply
suitable techniques when teaching her. Thus, the student can memorize the
words better. The third is I will use repetition to teach the student. By
repeating the vocabulary, the student can memorize the English words better
because it makes the words seem more familiar for the student. Therefore, it
is highly likely that the student can memorize the words better.
To sum up, using fun activities to teach English vocabulary, giving extra
tutorials and using repetition are effective to help the student memorize the
words better. I expect the chosen solutions could help other teachers who
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Lasmiana, Buntari, S.pd, M.M. Personal interview. 23 May 2014.
