IMPROVING
THE STUDENTS VOCABULARY MASTERY THROUGH ROLE PLAY AT FIFTH GRADE SMART SCHOOL ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL (Pre Experimental)
CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
of the Study
English teaching
involves four language
skills, they are
listening, speaking, reading and
writing. In dealing with the four language skill, there
are four aspects that support
them, namely grammar, vocabulary, spelling and
pronunciation that are
also being taught in
English teaching and
learning process (Muchsin 2016:
82). From the four aspect above vocabulary is considered as the most important
factor in mastering English.
Vocabulary
is very important because a word is a tool to think about the meaning of the
words. It is more of a grammar because it is the key to communicating with
others. Knowing more words gives the mind more tools to plan or think of
something. Vocabulary is an essential component learned in language learning, without
grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed. The
most important point
of the statement
above is that
mastering vocabulary for students
is the main
component in order
to learn a
language successfully (Alqahtani 2015: 22).
Learning
vocabulary as a foreign language seems easy but some students feel fear because
the students do not have high motivation and less attractive in learning
English vocabulary, so that they have difficulties in understanding or comprehending the meanings
of unfamiliar words and memorizing new words (Sedita 2005). The teacher of
English should find out solution by creating efficient and effective technique
of teaching vocabulary. Beside that, the teachers should establish condition
which makes teaching vocabulary possible.
Based on the result of observation at the fifth
grade smart school elementary school. The researcher found that the students
have problems in mastering the vocabulary items they learned, the students’
mastery of vocabulary is poor such as on describing the meaning and the ?????