Resa Layinatun Napisah 14111310056. EXPLORING THE ENGLISH
TEACHER’S EFFORTS TO INCREASE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY AT
MTsN SUKARAJA
Teaching vocabulary as a first step in teaching English language. Many
students face many problem in learning english language as foreign language. They
can not reading, writing, speaking, and listening well yet. All of that causes many
aspect, one of them is master of vocabulary. the students’ perception about
vocabulary is difficult, they can not comphare write and speak it. Sometimes poor
vocabulary make them do not understand what the meaning in every text, expression,
etc. Here, the researcher meet with a new teacher whom teaching English during two
years. The teacher have many efforts how to teach English vocabulary to her
students in the class. This study is aimed to investigate a English teacher’s efforts to
increase students’ vocabulary.
Furthermore, the qualitative study is conducted to observe teacher’s effort
through documentation, interview, questionnaire, and classroom observation. The
researcher conducts interview, classroom observation and documentation to collect
the data. Here, data taken from English teachers at MTsN Sukaraja as the source will
be analyzed, interpreted and represented descriptively.
In addition, the finding shows that English teacher’s efforts in teaching
vocabulary have to make good prepare. Teacher’s efforts which is used by English
teacher are lesson plan, implementation and evaluation from teaching and learning
process. Lesson plan made to help teacher easy in teaching vocabulary, and not stuck
because the teacher have managed class condition. The teacher selective in choose
material, method, media, and also strategy to approach with students.
Moreover, the finding also presents that teacher’s efforts is believed for being a
tool for learners to learn. After teacher arrange lesson plan as a first effort, then this
lesson plan implementing in the class in next meeting. Implementation here as a
reality fact in class activity. The teacher teach students and manage them based on
her lesson plan. While the lesson plan and implementation was applying, the next
step is evaluation. Evaluation use to check what the material which teach by teacher,
what the students gain from the material which the teacher deliver.
The last, the English teachers at MTsN Sukaraja believe that learners’ abilty
can be improve in classroom. Furthermore, the English teacher and students’
responses to teacher’s efforts will develop teaching and learning process among
teaching languages in classroom activities is used for many reasons which is applied
mostly for message repetition.
Key words : Vocabulary, Teaching Vocabulary, and Grammar Translation
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