THE EFFECT OF DIRECT METHOD ON STUDENT’S VOCABULARY MASTERING
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Vocabulary is one of the important aspects in teaching English language. Another aspects should teacher know is to be creative and patient in finding, choosing, and simplifying the materials which make the students mastery the vocabulary. There are many factors that make the students’ vocabulary is low. They came from the internal factor and the external one. The internal means factors from the inside of the students themselves such as motivation, interest, intelligence etc. And the external is factors from the outside of the students that affect their learning process such as economic background, learning materials, and teachers’ performance including their teaching methods.
Large vocabulary helps us to express our ideas precisely in communication. Vocabulary knowledge enables language use, language use enables increase of vocabulary knowledge, and knowledge of the world enables the increase of vocabulary knowledge and language use and so on. Mastering vocabulary is not easy, yet other aspects of the language are considered such as; sound, and structure. Vocabulary is one of the most important elements in a language. We cannot speak the language well if we do not master it. No matter how well we learn grammar, how successfully the sound of the foreign language is mastered, without words to express a wider range of meanings, communication in the foreign language just cannot happen in any meaningful way.
Teaching English as a foreign language is not similar to teaching of vernacular. We know English is different from other languages whether on the vocabulary, phonology, and structure system. Those have great deal of influence to Indonesian students in learning English. Developing student’s interest in learning vocabulary has always been one of the principal challenges for the teachers. In addition, to help students in mastering English, many teachers have used different methods for the same purpose, to understand, to learn and to remember vocabulary more easily. In Indonesia, the usual technique to handle this problem is by supplying a list of words added with the.......(Baca Selengkapnya)
