| dc.description.abstract | English has a very important position in Indonesia. Especially in the academic
field, English has been taught from junior high schools up to universities. At
present, English is also taught to the elementary school as the Based Curriculum
(2006). Nowdays, English is the first foreign language that must be taught in
junior and senior high school because English is an international language that
becomes a general communication tool in globalisation era. Thus, the teaching of
English as a foreign language in Indonesia is extremely important.
In learning a language, one of the language components that should be
acquired by the learners is vocabulary. In this case, teachers need to introduce new
words using a particular strategy to the students. However, if the strategy in
teaching vocabulary is not conducted in a correct and interesting manner, the
result tends to lead the students to memorize the words and they will make the
students stressed. This means that teachers should be creative and innovative
enough. This is in line with what Pikulski and Templeton (2005:5) state that the
purpose for teaching vocabulary is to facilitate the comprehension of a text that
students will be assigned to read. Teaching vocabulary as the major part in this
process is the art of the language themselves. Students need to see the words in
context, and to see how they are used in the process of interaction. Since
vocabulary is a core component of language proficiency, it provides much of the
basis for how well learners speak, listen, read, and write. Based on the curriculum
2006 of English in Indonesia , vocabulary should be integrated in the process of
learning which is based on curriculum-based competence. In other words, any
kind of strategy used to achieve the goal of vocabulary mastery should be
provided properly by all language teachers. | en_US |
