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vocabulary students could not be able to understand how the language is. The role of words is important to know how the language is used,
practiced and communicated. If we want to communicate with others in certain language we need
to master the language they belong to especially to know enough vocabulary of those languages. Words are the basic units of language from
that supports the language itself. Rivers quoted by Nunan has also argued that the acquisition of an
adequate vocabulary is essential for successful second language use because, without an extensive vocabulary, we will be unable to use the
structures and functions we may have learned for comprehensible communication
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. As we know, English is a „world language’, now days
the most communication tools for global communication. So, we must have a lot of „bank of English words’. Other wise grammar and exercising
pronunciation English need to be learned too. Mastery of vocabulary is an essential component of all uses of language; it helps student too to
communicate effectively or expressing their ideas in English Without an extensive vocabulary and strategies for acquiring new
vocabulary, learner often achieve less than their potential and may discouraged from making use of language learning opportunities around
them such as listening to the radio, listening to native speaker, using the language in different contexts, reading, or watching television.
According to Jack C. Richards and Willy A. Renandya, “Vocabulary is a core component of language proficiency and provides
much of the basis for how well learners speak, listen, read, and write”.
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Its means that the first thing we have to learn English is we have to mastery the vocabulary, because with vocabulary we can learn
Language skill easier and will be useful for the process of achieving
1
David Nunan, “Language Teaching Methodology”, New York: Prentice Hall, 1991, p. 117.
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Jack C. Richards and Willy A. Renandya, Methodology in Language Teaching, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002, p. 255.
language teaching objectives. In the other word, Vocabulary is the important subject in language learning, if we lack vocabulary will face a
lot of problems. Furthermore,
according to
Merriam- Webster’s Collegiate
Dictionary, vocabulary is: 1. A list or collection of words and phrase usually alphabetically
arranged and explained or defined. 2. A sum or stock of words employed by a language group
individual or work or in a field of knowledge. 3. A list or collection of terms or codes available for use.
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Its means that vocabulary is a list or collection of words and
phrases usually arranged and explained or defined in some subject, activities, various registers, and particular sphere
group.
As what mentioned above the definitions of vocabulary is more than one, but the definition from one reference to other is related. From
those, The writer summarizes that vocabulary is a total of words or phrases that maintains all of information used by person, class or profession in
communication and it is important thing when learners study the language it self and study the using of the language.