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students in terms of learning English vocabulary, and c assigning the students to do the tes
t in order to identify the students’ problems of English vocabulary and students
’ understanding about part of speech such as noun, verb, adjective and adverb.
a. The Result of Pre Interview
Pre interview carried out in this research was the unstructured interview. It was held on Monday, 21
th
February 2011 started at 12.00 p.m and finished at 12.30 P.M. The researcher asked to the teacher
some questions which clasified into three categories, they are: the general condition in English class especially in vocabulary learning, the
strategy in teaching vocabulary used by the teacher, and the difficulty faced by students in vocabulary learning. At the end the researcher also
asked about vocabulary card. First category discussed about the general condition in English
class especially in vocabulary learning. The teaching learning process conducted as three phase there were pre activities, while activities and
post activities. In vocabulary learning, the teacher used a little activity such as giving an assignment personally, bring a picture related to the
new vocabulary, and grouping for teamwork.
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Second category talked about the strategy used by the teacher in teaching vocabulary, the teacher said that sometimes she brings some
picture to the class but mostly using a dictionary to find the meaning of new vocabulary. The researcher asked the teacher about vocabulary
card technique, the teacher said she has known about vocabulary card but she never uses this technique. She hoped that this technique
vocabulary card can be effective in retaining students’ English
vocabulary, because this technique such as s game and the students will be fun in learning through this technique.
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See Appendix 1a-1b Numbers 1-6 of Preliminary Interview.
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See Appendix 1a-1b Numbers 11-13 of Preliminary Interview.
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The third category is the difficulty faced by the students focus on vocabulary. The teacher said that vocabulary was not the difficult
English sub-skills to be learned but the vocabulary were the main things of language, then we have to give a special attention on this sub-skill
without knowledge of vocabulary the students will find many problem in learning language especially English. Whereas the students must
achieve the Minimum Mastery Criterion- Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal KKM then they have to master from the essential things of language in
this case is vocabulary. The s tudents’ difficulty in learning or
memorizing vocabulary is the differences of the word function or part of speech. Consequently, the students confuse to compare the word
stand for in the sentence.
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The conclusion of the interview in term of the students’ difficulties in
vocabulary was the students’ of English first grade of MTs. Nurul Falah still have difficulties in vocabulary in term of part of speech. The
detail result of pre interview can be seen in appendix 1b.
b. The Result of Pre Questionnaire
