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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
Language is
at the centre of human life. It is one of the most important ways to express
our love or hate for people. It is a vital to achieve many of our goals and our
careers. It is a source of artistic satisfaction or sample pleasure. We use
language for planning our life and remembering our past. We exchange ideas and
experiences through language. Wilkins in Ahmad Anwar (1999:1) states that
language is a system of spoken and written symbols that enable to communicate and
interact with each other.
Referring
to the definition above, we can say that the primary function of language is
communication. We can communicate through language if we understand the
language used, we can communicate each other easily in the world if we to
master English, because English is an international language. Almost all people
in the world study it.
In Indonesia English is a foreign
language. It is taught as one of the compulsory subjects from the primary
school to the university level. English has four skills namely: reading,
listening, speaking and writing. To develop them, the student’s must enrich
themselves with vocabulary. It is the element which conveys meaning or sense of
what they want to express writing or speaking. The students are expected to
posses the competence in the word recognition and understanding the meaning of
the words they read in relation to the importance of vocabulary, the teacher of
English should discover or look for some technique to bring together the
success of teaching vocabulary incidentally for many years as one has been seen
which made the student’s low ability in comprehending English text or in
expressing their ideas in speaking. This has been proved by Baharuddin (1994)
in his findings that one of the factors of student’s low achievement in
comprehending a passage because they are lack of vocabulary make students
seldom to speak English in the classroom.
In order to improve the learners
vocabulary some previous researchers have tried out different techniques of
vocabulary teaching such as the use of pictures, teaching vocabulary through
songs, teaching vocabulary through visual aids, teaching vocabulary through
poems, etc. compared with conventional method, all of these techniques are
reported more effective. They,
therefore, become alternative teaching technique which their used, of course,
based on the class situation.
Based on the background above the
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