4 education, including interpersonal skill, social skill, and academic skill to learn
independently. According to Napitupulu 2001: 2, this policy is related to UNESCO‟s educational pillars, those are learning to know, learning to do,
learning to be, and learning to live together. Learning to know means that children learn through media and teacher‟s explanation. Learning to do means that children
do learning activities directly, and learning to live together means that children have interaction with other people. In the teaching process, pre-school students
will have social interaction with other students. It is very difficult to teach pre- school students because they are not able to write well. Their process of learning
is still to learn through the sense of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Based on those senses, it is hoped the students will be accustomed to understand the
meaning of vocabulary list step by step with continuous teaching process through appropriate methods and media. The vocabulary lists will be useful for the
students to face life skill education in their future. In today‟s circumstances, life
skill education for pre-school students has not appeared yet because they are still too young to understand the meaning of life skill. Life skill will be used
throughout their lives.
B. Problem Formulation
This study aims to identify the methods and media used in teaching English and to identify why the methods and media can be applied correctly in
class. The problems are formulated as in the next page.
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What kinds of methods are used in teaching vocabulary for “Speak First”
pre-school students? 2.
What kinds of media are used in teaching vocabulary for “Speak First” pre-
school students? 3.
What are the underlying reasons to use different methods and media in each meeting?
C. Problem Limitation
In order to limit the scope of the study in conducting the research, the writer deals only with the vocabulary activities conducted by English teachers in
“Speak First” Klaten. The observation on the vocabulary activities was about
how an English teacher teaches vocabulary in every meeting by using methods and media. The observation also covers in what situation the methods and media
can be applied in class.
D. Research Objectives
The general objective of this study is to investigate what the English teacher in
“Speak First” Klaten conducts vocabulary teaching-learning for pre- school students. The specific objectives can be stated as follows.
1. To find out the methods the teachers applied in teaching-learning
vocabulary as the foreign language. 2.
To find out the media the teachers used in teaching-learning vocabulary as the foreign language.
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To know what the underlying reasons are to use the methods and media in each meeting in teaching vocabulary.
E. Research Benefits
This study is expected to be able to give several benefits for the students, teachers, and the future researchers.
For students, this study aims to give new experience to the students in learning vocabulary as their foreign language and the basic knowledge of their
learning English language. The students can understand the meaning of vocabularies that they learn although they are not able to write yet. The students
can get experiences in vocabulary and also expand their understanding of word meaning.
For the English teachers, the result of this study is to gain insight into methods in teaching vocabulary. After knowing the methods in teaching
vocabulary, the English teachers are expected to provide better methods in teaching vocabulary in which vocabulary is an important element that can support
students‟ quality in learning English. The English teachers may also find out whether the learning activities and teaching methods and media they planned and
applied are useful or not in order to encourage students during the class. In addition, English teachers may also find out whether the teaching-learning
activities through the methods enable students to learn vocabulary in easier ways. To other researchers, hopefully this study gives understanding and
knowledge in teaching vocabulary to the students in pre-school ages as the basic
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know the underlying reasons of using the methods and media during the teaching process.
F. Definition of Terms
