CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Language is a crucial means
for human communication. It is used to make an interaction with other people in
society and also it is used to express emotion, feeling, and opinion within the
language. Vocabulary has an important role in all aspects of language skills.
It is the flesh of the language. Someone can not express his idea without
has enough vocabulary.
There are four language skills
should be achieved in the study of English as a foreign language. These four
language skills are developed from four language components: structure,
vocabulary, pronunciations and spelling. In this research the writer’s
attention focused on the vocabulary as one of the English component. The
vocabulary as one of the elements of language is important to study, because without
enough vocabulary mastery, the ability to communicate and convey can not be
established.
Therefore, English teachers
must have responsibility to use the material in teaching a foreign language.
According to Harmer (1991) at the same time, we must have something to say; we
must have meanings that we wish to express, and we need to have a store of
words that we can select from when we wish to
express the meaning.
Allan (1997) argues that
vocabulary is an important factor in all language teaching. Besides the sound
system and structure the other essential area of language learning is the
lexicon, or vocabulary command of the language in order to master the English
language, the students have to know the importance of English vocabulary. Many
students can not read and understand the text because they do not have a good
vocabulary command. This problem appears at the second year students of MAN 1
Makassar in academic year 2009/2010 where the vocabulary mastery of the
students is still low (5.20). Eventhough, some techniques and approaches have
been employed in teaching vocabulary, but the students’ vocabulary mastery is
still low. Therefore, the writer will use vocabulary network as one of
techniques in teaching vocabulary. The writer suspects that teaching vocabulary
by using vocabulary network is good to improve vocabulary mastery of the
students. It can make the students interested in learning English vocabulary.
Based on the explanation
above, the writer is interested in conducting a class room action research
examining the use of vocabulary network????????????
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