A STUDY ON THE PROBLEM OF LEARNING ENGLISH VOCABULARY FACED BY THE STUDENTS

ABSTRACT

English as one of tools of communication used by most people in the world has the same elements: grammatical structure and vocabulary. In studying vocabulary, a lot of beginners find some difficulties: they are difficult to memorize new vocabularies the have got and they cannot pronounce the new vocabularies correctly.

The purpose of this study is to know the problems on learning English vocabulary faced by the students. There are some cases vocabularies faced by students: the pattern of difficulty of vocabulary, the technique of learning vocabulary used by the students and the technique of teaching vocabulary used by their English teacher.

The target population of this study is all of the students of SMP and the target of sample is all of the seventh students of SMP and their teacher.

For collecting data needed for the study, the researcher uses three kinds instruments namely: questionnaire, interview and observation. Questionnaire is as the main instrument, the interview needs to provide the data collected by questionnaire, and observation is used to get the data of the technique of teaching vocabulary in class.

The result of this study shows that are some problems of learning English vocabulary faced by the students namely: learn the position, idiom, plural form and irregular verb, and then how to build sentence using the new vocabulary. They also often forget the instruments needed in learning English vocabulary like handbooks of teaching vocabulary used by English teacher. Some of them felt difficulty to understand their teacher explanation. The other problem was the technique of presenting the vocabulary material.

                                                   TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover Page ……………………………………………………………………….… i

Acceptance Sheet …………………………………………………………………… ii
Approval Sheet ……………………………………………………………………… iii
Motto and Dedication ……………………………………………………………….. iv
Acknowledgment …………………………………………………………………… v
Abstract ……………………………………………………………………………... vi
Table of Content …………………………………………………………………….. vii
Chapter I: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study …………………………………………………… 1
1.2 Statement of the Problem …………………………………………………… 3
1.3 Objectives of the Study ……………………………………………………... 4
1.4 Significance of the Study …………………………………………………… 4
1.5 Limitation of the Study ……………………………………………………... 5
1.6 Definition of the Key Terms ……………………………………………….. 5

Chapter II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Definition of Vocabulary……………………………………………………. 7
2.2 Significance of Vocabulary…………………………………………………. 9
2.3 Pattern of Difficulty of Vocabulary ……………………………………….... 12
2.4 Learning Vocabulary………………………………………………………… 13
2.4.1 What is Learning?………………………………………………….… 13
2.4.2 Learning Vocabulary in General…………………………………….. 14
2.4.3 Some Cases Concerning to the Problem of
         Understanding and Using Words …………………………………… 14
2.5 Teaching Vocabulary ……………………………………………………….. 14

Chapter III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Design……………………………………………………………... 19
3.2 Population and Samples……………………………………………………... 19
3.2.1 Population …………………………………………………………….. 19
3.2.2 Samples ……………………………………………………………….. 20
3.3 Instruments …………………………………………………………………. 21
3.3.1 Questionnaire …………………………………………………………. 21
3.3.2 Interview ……………………………………………………………… 21
3.3.3 Observation …………………………………………………………… 22
3.4 The Procedure of Data Analysis ……………………………………………. 22

Chapter IV: RESULT AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Result of Data Analysis……………………………………………………... 23
4.1.1 The Result of the Students Questionnaire ..…………………………... 23
4.1.1.1 Cases Concerning the Pattern of Difficulty
            of Vocabulary Faced by Students ……………………………. 23
4.1.1.2 Cases Concerning the Learning Vocabulary
             in Relation to Interest and Technique of
             Learning Vocabulary …………………………………………. 25
4.1.1.3 Cases Concerning the Problems of Learning
            Vocabulary in Relation to the Technique of
            Teaching Vocabulary ………………………………………… 32
4.1.2 The Result Data from the Teacher Interview …………………………. 33
4.2 Discussion ………………………………………………………………….. 34
4.2.1 The Problems of Learning Vocabulary Faced by Students …………… 34
4.2.2 The Problems of Learning Vocabulary Concerning

         the Technique of Learning Vocabulary ……………………………… 35
4.2.3 The Problems of Learning Vocabulary Concerning
         the Technique of Teaching Vocabulary Used by
         the English Teacher …………………………………………………... 36

Chapter V: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1 Conclusion ………………………………………………………….………. 37
5.2 Suggestion …………………………………………………….……………. 38

BIBLIOGRAPHY ……………………..………………………………………….. 40
APPENDIXES:
Appendix I : The Questionnaire for the Students
Appendix II : The Interview for the Teacher
Appendix III : Surat Keterangan
Appendix IV : Surat Ijin Penelitian
Appendix V : Kartu Kuning
Appendix VI : Biography


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