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“results in the learning of vocabulary”. 3.
The Eight Graders of SMP Negeri 15 Yogyakarta The experimental research involved one class of SMP Negeri 15
Yogyakarta, class 8A and the teacher. The teacher was the source of information of the students‟ condition. The students experienced the pretest at the first
meeting, and learned guessing meaning from context procedure, and filled out the questionnaire, which was designed by the researcher in order to figure out how
they consider the guessing meaning from context procedure. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter provides the theories underlying the study. This chapter includes the theoretical description and theoretical framework. The theoretical
description presents the discussion of any literature related to vocabulary learning and guessing meaning from context procedure for learning vocabulary. The
theoretical framework summaries all relevant theories which help the researcher to solve the research problem.
A. Theoretical Description
In this theoretical description, the researcher would like to discuss the theories which are related to the research issue. The researcher limits the theories
into two specific theoretical descriptions. They are the theories of vocabulary learning and the guessing meaning from context procedure for learning
vocabulary.
1. Teaching Vocabulary
Vocabulary work can be directed toward useful words and can give learners practice in useful skills. There is a wide variety of ways for dealing with
vocabulary in foreign or second language learning. Dissatisfaction with one approach to vocabulary should not result in ignoring all the other ways of helping
learners enrich their vocabulary. It is important that when a teacher chooses or rejects a way to deal with vocabulary. The approach refers to the strategies for
