THE CORRELATION BETWEEN VOCABULARY
MASTERY AND THE FLUENCY IN SPEAKING ENGLISH.
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
English is one of the most important
languages in the world because it is of international communication. Therefore,
the government of Indonesia has placed this English language in the curriculum
not only at the secondary school, senior high school, but also at university or
institute.
Being able to speak in English one needs
to have enough vocabulary to express own idea. Therefore, speaking is one way
of giving and finding information through oral communication. Speaker of
English agrees that vocabulary is needed so much and not less important than
grammar. Many students are still doubtful to expose their ideas in
English because they have a limited vocabulary in their mind.
Vocabulary is one of the important
elements in building up English using this element, someone can communicate,
learning and thinking. Therefore, the learning of vocabulary is fundamental
need to support some learners to master English, because the ability of students to read and to
comprehend the subject is relatively detemined by their vocabulary.
The research shows that the student's
ability in speaking is still unsatisfactory and tends to be disheartened. Many
factors may cause this problem for example, the lack of student's vocabulary,
the teacher's technique in teaching, the lack of the student's motivation in
learning vocabulary, the student's laziness in memorizing vocabulary required,
even in speaking case they may rarely use words in speaking. Therefore a study
says that one never really knows a word until he or she is on speaking with it.
Based on the explanation above, the writer tries to conduct a research to find
out the correlation between vocabulary mastery and the fluency in speaking
English.
