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?????
