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 researcher would like to????????????
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