and until to indicate the time, for, because, and since to indicate the cause, in order that, so that, to indicate the purpose, although to indicate the
comparison, unless and whether to indicate the condition and therefore to indicate the conclusion.
The function words are the interrogative particles who, whose, which, what, where, why and how. The articles the, a, an. Degree words more,
most. The generalizing particle ever. Special uses there, it, and one.
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From the explanations above, it is clear that the vocabulary is really useful and important to improve students’ grammar because by knowing the
function words and various types of words, students will find and get the suitable meaning of the native language.
b. Developing Reading Skill
The reading section of each book contains materials on techniques of reading and studying, as test taking test and reasoning. Major emphasis is
placed on the vocabulary development. Use of the dictionary, use as context as a clue the meaning, and the analysis of words through the study of
prefixes, suffixes, roots, and combining forms are treated thoroughly at each level. Vocabulary enrichment is based on words found in the texts and the
activities. These exercises appear frequently throughout the texts. The second, the art program, illustrates and discusses interesting words related to
a specific thematic idea in each book of the series.
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It means that by having a lot of vocabulary stocks will help the students not only in grasping the meaning or understanding the language
they learn, but also in getting the exact meaning on what they read.
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Betty Schrampfer Azar, Understanding and Using English Grammar, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1989 p. 231
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Millie John and Paulene M. Yates, Basic Language, New York: Harper and Row Publishing, Inc., 1982, p. iii
c. Improving Speaking Ability
Learning a foreign language does not only learn grammatical components, the way how to listen a foreign language, read and write an
English article but also the way how to produce the separated words from the vocabulary we have, in other words we should practice our vocabularies
we have through speech. Because as a foreign speaker, by producing the words or vocabularies through speech will improve our ability in speaking.
Other ways that can improve our ability in speaking is by arrange the words or vocabularies into good sentences, in order to make the readers understand
when they read it or the listeners understand it when it is spoken. Vocabulary is also very important for the acquisition process. The
popular belief, that one uses form and grammar to opposite; that someone acquires morphology and syntax because he understands the meaning of the
utterances. Acquisition
depends crucially
on the
input being
comprehensible. Comprehensibility is dependent directly on the ability to recognize the meaning of key elements in the utterance. Thus, acquisition
will not take place without comprehension of vocabulary.
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It means that, vocabulary has an important role in interacting with other people or
understanding the meaning of utterances. Teachers have never doubt the value of learning vocabulary they
know how to communication stops when learners lack the necessary words.
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It means that by having a lot of words or stock of vocabularies is really useful for the students or speakers while they are speaking because it
will help their fluency in brainstorming their ideas, feelings and opinions.
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Stephen D. Kreshen and Tracy D. Tarrel, The Natural approach Language acquisition in The Classroom, Britain: Prentice Hall International, 1998, p.155
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Virginia Frenc Allen, Teaching Vocabulary, New York: Oxford University Press, 1983, p. 5
Therefore, the students should be able to choose the suitable words when they are going to speak.
d. Improving Writing Skill
