STRATEGIES USED BY SANTRIS TO PROMOTE VOCABULARY MASTERY IN DARUSSALAM GONTOR BOARDING SCHOOL
STRATEGIES USED BY SANTRIS TO PROMOTE VOCABULARY MASTERY IN
DARUSSALAM GONTOR BOARDING SCHOOL
THESIS
By :
GAGAS ARISANDI
NIM : 201210100311223
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMET
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF MALANG
2016
MOTTOS
“No sacrifice, No victory”
-Transformer Film
DEDICATIONS
This thesis is proudly dedicated to:
My beloved parent, Ardi and Nanuk Indihariyah
My beautiful wife and my angel: Indi Asih Lestari
My beautiful sister: Andri Yulia E.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Assalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb
In the name of Allah, the lord of the word, the Beneficent, and the Merciful
First of all, the writer would like to express his great thank to Allah SWT who gives me mercy
and blessing until the writer finished his thesis.
Secondly, may shalawat and salaam always given to our prophet Muhammad SAW, who
guided us from the darkness jahiliyah era to the world of islam.
Thirdly, the writer would like to thank you for his beloved parents, his beloved wife Indi
Asih Lestari, and his sister who are always give him supports, motivations and patient. Their
supports are very meaningful for the writer. The writer always whishes can make them proud and
happy.
Furthermore, the most thankful goes to his kind advisors, Dr. Masduki M.Pd and Drs.
Jarum M.Pd who have guide, improve the writer’s skill in writing and help him to finish his
thesis.
The writer also would like to express his big gratitude to Ustadz Naufal Al Dicki who
gives the writer a chance and help him during the research that the writer conducted in
Darussalam Gontor Boarding School.
And also the writer doesn’t forget to express his big thankful to his besties and his
craziest friends who give him so many experiences and color on his days during his study at
University of Muhammadiyah Malang, Rio Rireza Pahlevi M, Mirza Dianata, Arief Rahman,
Ghulam Mudhofar, Luthfi Anggraini, Kevin Al-Mahdi, Tutus, Surti, Ambika Putri P, Randi
TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL ......................................................................................................... ii
MOTO AND DEDICATION ............................................................................... iv
LEGALIZATION ................................................................................................. v
ABSTRACT .......................................................................................................... vi
ACKNOWLEDGE ............................................................................................... vii
TABLE OF CONTENTS ...................................................................................... ix
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION .......................................................................... 1
1.1 Background of Study ...................................................................................... 1
1.2 Statement of Problems .................................................................................... 3
1.3 Purpose of Study ............................................................................................. 3
1.4 Significance of the Study ................................................................................ 4
1.5 Scope and Limitation ...................................................................................... 4
1.6 Definition of key term ..................................................................................... 4
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Definition of Strategies ................................................................................... 6
2.2 Definition of Learning Strategies.................................................................... 7
2.3 Definition of Vocabulary ................................................................................ 8
2.4 Definition of Vocabulary Learning Strategies ................................................ 10
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Design.............................................................................................. 14
3.2 Participants of Research .................................................................................. 15
3.3 Research Instrument........................................................................................ 15
3.3.1 Interview ...................................................................................................... 15
3.3.2 Questionnaire ............................................................................................... 16
3.4 Data Analysis .................................................................................................. 17
CHAPTER IV: RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
4.1 The Strategies Used by Santris to Promote Vocabularies .............................. 20
4.1.1 Memorizing the Words in the Morning ....................................................... 20
4.1.2 Repeating Loudly and Memorizing the Words ............................................ 22
4.1.3 Finding the Words by Listening English Songs .......................................... 23
4.1.4 Bringing a Small Pocket Note Book to Write the Words ............................ 25
4.1.5 Getting the Vocabularies from the Managers of Hostel .............................. 26
4.1.6 Doing a Conversation with a Friend by Using English ............................... 27
4.1.7 Asking About the Vocabularies to the Teacher or Ustadz ........................... 29
4.1.8 Writing the Written Vocabularies on the Boards ......................................... 30
4.2 Discussion ....................................................................................................... 31
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
5.1 Conclusions ..................................................................................................... 35
5.2 Suggestions ..................................................................................................... 36
5.2.1 Suggestion for the Santris.......................................................................36
5.2.2 Suggestion for the next Researchers ..................................................... 36
REFERENCES
APPENDICES
REFERENCES
Achmad, Syarifuddin. (2013). Developing English Vocabulary Mastery through Meaningful
Learning Approach: An Applied Linguistics Study at Competitive Class of Junior High
Schools in Gorontalo City, Indonesia. Indonesia: Letters and Culture Faculty, State
University of Gorontalo.
Ary, Donald. , Jacobs, L. C. and Razavieh, A. (2002). Introduction to research in
education.
USA: Wadsworth Thoms on Learning.
Asgari, Azadeh. (2010). The Type of Vocabulary Learning Strategies Used by ESL Students in
University Putra Malaysia. Malaysia: Department of Language and Humanities, Faculty
of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Ghony, M Djuanidy dan Almanshur, Fauzan. (2012). Metodologi Penelitian Kualitatif.
Jogjakarta: Ar-Ruzz Media
He, Ying. (2010). A Study of L2 Vocabulary Learning Strategies. Kristianstad University The
School of Teacher Education.
Hsun, Min. and Su, Maggie. (2005). A Study of EFL Technological and Vocational College
Students’ Language Learning Strategies and their Self-Perceived English Proficiency.
Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching 2005, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 44-56 ©
Centre for Language Studies National University of Singapore.
Kurniawati, Witri. (2012). Strategies for Vocabulary Enrichment Employed by The Teacher at
The Fifth Year of SD N I Jatirejo. Surakarta: School of Teacher Training and Education
Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta.
Miles, Mathew B. Michael Huberman. 1984. Qualitative Data Analysis: A Sourcebook of New
Methods. London: Sage Publication,Inc.
Nazir, Moh. (2005). Metode Penelitian. Bogor: Ghalia Media
Nickols, Fred. (2010). Strategy Definitions & Meanings. DISTANCE CONSULTING LLC.
Novira, Hira. Enriching Vocabulary by Using Combining Mystery Bag Strategy and ABC Book
Strategy for Young Learners. Sumatra Barat: (STKIP) PGRI.
Preszler, June. (2006). On Target: Strategies to Build Student Vocabularies. Black Hills Region.
Zhang, Bei. (2011). A Study of the Vocabulary Learning Strategies used by Chinese Students.
Kristianstad University School of teacher education.
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
In regards the following inquiry of the knowledge in the present study, this
chapter is going to explain about the background of study, statement of problem,
purpose of study, significance of study, scope and limitation of study and definition
of key terms. This stage is important to introduce the foundation of the present study.
Each section will be explained as below.
1.1 Background of Study
English is an international language which has various of vocabularies
required to make a sentence in paragraph. This means people need to have their own
techniques to store varies of vocabularies. Looking at how important vocabularies in
the international language, vocabularies should be given to the learners in their very
beginning of a language study. This idea may help learners in learning the language
correctly. Therefore, teaching proper using appropriate methods will benefit teachers
and learners in learning English as international language.
To master the vocabularies, the students need some strategies to get more
vocabularies. Here the researcher will explain the strategies to master the
vocabularies. According to Rowenhorst (2006) there are some simple ways to
mastery vocabulary indirectly for children by using reading, listening and speaking.
Basically reading vocabulary, speaking vocabulary, writing vocabulary and listening
vocabulary are the basics competence that children can used to mastery vocabulary
1
and it has a big role in vocabulary development. As a result, the more children do the
reading, speaking and listening skills, the more they will get vocabularies.
A related study that was conducted by Witri Kurniawati (2012) about
strategies for vocabulary enrichment employed by teacher at the fifth year of SDN I
Jatirejo. It wasfound that there are some strategies that are usually used by teacher at
SDN I Jatirejo to enrich the student’s vocabulary, such as: definition, self-defining
context, realia, reading the words, writing the words, and games.
Meanwhile, there is another research on the strategy done by students in
learning vocabulary. It was done by Bei Zhang (2011) about the vocabulary learning
strategies used by Chinese students. The result shows that there are several kinds of
learning strategies used by Chinese students to master vocabulary, they are listening
and reading, learning words in sentence, using bilingual dictionary, reading English
books in spare time, studying the spelling.
From the all theories above about the strategies in mastery vocabulary, the
researcher has the experiment in the learning and mastering vocabulary in different
strategies, and this strategies frequently used by santri in Darussalam Gontor
boarding school. Santri is the students who study in the boarding school. As a
boarding school, Darussalam Gontor boarding school has already developed a unique
model of English teaching. It provides both formal and informal language
environment. Formally, Darussalam Gontor boarding school adopts and synthesizes
2
very up to date language theories and language learning theories as bases for
conducting teaching and learning activities. Informally, Darussalam Gontor boarding
school creates a good environment where the learners are enforced to use English as
their everyday communication. Wherever and whenever they go to or stay in the
boarding school they have to use English. In daily activity, in the morning santri will
be given some vocabulary which has been prepared previously by their seniors. The
senior will provide vocabulary by using direct method.
By this phenomenon, the researcher is interested to know the strategies that
are used by santri Darussalam Gontor boarding school in mastery vocabulary.
1.2 Statement of Problem
Based on the research background of the study above, the research problem of
this study is:
What are the strategies used by santris to promote the vocabulary quantity?
1.3 Purpose of the study
Related to the research problems, the purposes of the study this research is:
To know the strategies used by santris to promote the vocabulary mastery.
1.4 Significance of the study
3
The theoretical significance of this research is expected to be able to
increasing the knowledge about the strategies that used by santri in Darussalam
Gontor boarding school to promote the vocabulary mastery. By knowing how to
promote English vocabulary by santri in Darussalam Gontor boarding school, is
expected to enrich our knowledge in English vocabulary learning strategies.
Furthermore, for the next researcher, this research is expected to have some
improvement and give more knowledge to make the next better research.
1.5 Scope and limitation of the study
In this research the writer is interested in investigating the learning vocabulary
strategies by santri. Because of his limited time, source, knowledge and experience
before in the boarding school before, the scope of this study focuses on the learning
strategies used by santri Darussalam Gontor boarding school in mastering
vocabulary.
1.6 Definition of the Key Terms
1. Vocabulary is a word described as a sound or a combination of sounds, or its
representation in writing or printing that symbolizes and communicates a meaning
(Ying He. 2010:11)
4
2. Santri The word santri was derived from the word "Cantrik" (Sanskrit), which
means people who always follow the teacher, which developed by Perguruan Taman
Siswa in boarding system called Pawiyatan (Madjid (1997 : 19-20)
5
DARUSSALAM GONTOR BOARDING SCHOOL
THESIS
By :
GAGAS ARISANDI
NIM : 201210100311223
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMET
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF MALANG
2016
MOTTOS
“No sacrifice, No victory”
-Transformer Film
DEDICATIONS
This thesis is proudly dedicated to:
My beloved parent, Ardi and Nanuk Indihariyah
My beautiful wife and my angel: Indi Asih Lestari
My beautiful sister: Andri Yulia E.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Assalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb
In the name of Allah, the lord of the word, the Beneficent, and the Merciful
First of all, the writer would like to express his great thank to Allah SWT who gives me mercy
and blessing until the writer finished his thesis.
Secondly, may shalawat and salaam always given to our prophet Muhammad SAW, who
guided us from the darkness jahiliyah era to the world of islam.
Thirdly, the writer would like to thank you for his beloved parents, his beloved wife Indi
Asih Lestari, and his sister who are always give him supports, motivations and patient. Their
supports are very meaningful for the writer. The writer always whishes can make them proud and
happy.
Furthermore, the most thankful goes to his kind advisors, Dr. Masduki M.Pd and Drs.
Jarum M.Pd who have guide, improve the writer’s skill in writing and help him to finish his
thesis.
The writer also would like to express his big gratitude to Ustadz Naufal Al Dicki who
gives the writer a chance and help him during the research that the writer conducted in
Darussalam Gontor Boarding School.
And also the writer doesn’t forget to express his big thankful to his besties and his
craziest friends who give him so many experiences and color on his days during his study at
University of Muhammadiyah Malang, Rio Rireza Pahlevi M, Mirza Dianata, Arief Rahman,
Ghulam Mudhofar, Luthfi Anggraini, Kevin Al-Mahdi, Tutus, Surti, Ambika Putri P, Randi
TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL ......................................................................................................... ii
MOTO AND DEDICATION ............................................................................... iv
LEGALIZATION ................................................................................................. v
ABSTRACT .......................................................................................................... vi
ACKNOWLEDGE ............................................................................................... vii
TABLE OF CONTENTS ...................................................................................... ix
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION .......................................................................... 1
1.1 Background of Study ...................................................................................... 1
1.2 Statement of Problems .................................................................................... 3
1.3 Purpose of Study ............................................................................................. 3
1.4 Significance of the Study ................................................................................ 4
1.5 Scope and Limitation ...................................................................................... 4
1.6 Definition of key term ..................................................................................... 4
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Definition of Strategies ................................................................................... 6
2.2 Definition of Learning Strategies.................................................................... 7
2.3 Definition of Vocabulary ................................................................................ 8
2.4 Definition of Vocabulary Learning Strategies ................................................ 10
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Design.............................................................................................. 14
3.2 Participants of Research .................................................................................. 15
3.3 Research Instrument........................................................................................ 15
3.3.1 Interview ...................................................................................................... 15
3.3.2 Questionnaire ............................................................................................... 16
3.4 Data Analysis .................................................................................................. 17
CHAPTER IV: RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
4.1 The Strategies Used by Santris to Promote Vocabularies .............................. 20
4.1.1 Memorizing the Words in the Morning ....................................................... 20
4.1.2 Repeating Loudly and Memorizing the Words ............................................ 22
4.1.3 Finding the Words by Listening English Songs .......................................... 23
4.1.4 Bringing a Small Pocket Note Book to Write the Words ............................ 25
4.1.5 Getting the Vocabularies from the Managers of Hostel .............................. 26
4.1.6 Doing a Conversation with a Friend by Using English ............................... 27
4.1.7 Asking About the Vocabularies to the Teacher or Ustadz ........................... 29
4.1.8 Writing the Written Vocabularies on the Boards ......................................... 30
4.2 Discussion ....................................................................................................... 31
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
5.1 Conclusions ..................................................................................................... 35
5.2 Suggestions ..................................................................................................... 36
5.2.1 Suggestion for the Santris.......................................................................36
5.2.2 Suggestion for the next Researchers ..................................................... 36
REFERENCES
APPENDICES
REFERENCES
Achmad, Syarifuddin. (2013). Developing English Vocabulary Mastery through Meaningful
Learning Approach: An Applied Linguistics Study at Competitive Class of Junior High
Schools in Gorontalo City, Indonesia. Indonesia: Letters and Culture Faculty, State
University of Gorontalo.
Ary, Donald. , Jacobs, L. C. and Razavieh, A. (2002). Introduction to research in
education.
USA: Wadsworth Thoms on Learning.
Asgari, Azadeh. (2010). The Type of Vocabulary Learning Strategies Used by ESL Students in
University Putra Malaysia. Malaysia: Department of Language and Humanities, Faculty
of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Ghony, M Djuanidy dan Almanshur, Fauzan. (2012). Metodologi Penelitian Kualitatif.
Jogjakarta: Ar-Ruzz Media
He, Ying. (2010). A Study of L2 Vocabulary Learning Strategies. Kristianstad University The
School of Teacher Education.
Hsun, Min. and Su, Maggie. (2005). A Study of EFL Technological and Vocational College
Students’ Language Learning Strategies and their Self-Perceived English Proficiency.
Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching 2005, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 44-56 ©
Centre for Language Studies National University of Singapore.
Kurniawati, Witri. (2012). Strategies for Vocabulary Enrichment Employed by The Teacher at
The Fifth Year of SD N I Jatirejo. Surakarta: School of Teacher Training and Education
Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta.
Miles, Mathew B. Michael Huberman. 1984. Qualitative Data Analysis: A Sourcebook of New
Methods. London: Sage Publication,Inc.
Nazir, Moh. (2005). Metode Penelitian. Bogor: Ghalia Media
Nickols, Fred. (2010). Strategy Definitions & Meanings. DISTANCE CONSULTING LLC.
Novira, Hira. Enriching Vocabulary by Using Combining Mystery Bag Strategy and ABC Book
Strategy for Young Learners. Sumatra Barat: (STKIP) PGRI.
Preszler, June. (2006). On Target: Strategies to Build Student Vocabularies. Black Hills Region.
Zhang, Bei. (2011). A Study of the Vocabulary Learning Strategies used by Chinese Students.
Kristianstad University School of teacher education.
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
In regards the following inquiry of the knowledge in the present study, this
chapter is going to explain about the background of study, statement of problem,
purpose of study, significance of study, scope and limitation of study and definition
of key terms. This stage is important to introduce the foundation of the present study.
Each section will be explained as below.
1.1 Background of Study
English is an international language which has various of vocabularies
required to make a sentence in paragraph. This means people need to have their own
techniques to store varies of vocabularies. Looking at how important vocabularies in
the international language, vocabularies should be given to the learners in their very
beginning of a language study. This idea may help learners in learning the language
correctly. Therefore, teaching proper using appropriate methods will benefit teachers
and learners in learning English as international language.
To master the vocabularies, the students need some strategies to get more
vocabularies. Here the researcher will explain the strategies to master the
vocabularies. According to Rowenhorst (2006) there are some simple ways to
mastery vocabulary indirectly for children by using reading, listening and speaking.
Basically reading vocabulary, speaking vocabulary, writing vocabulary and listening
vocabulary are the basics competence that children can used to mastery vocabulary
1
and it has a big role in vocabulary development. As a result, the more children do the
reading, speaking and listening skills, the more they will get vocabularies.
A related study that was conducted by Witri Kurniawati (2012) about
strategies for vocabulary enrichment employed by teacher at the fifth year of SDN I
Jatirejo. It wasfound that there are some strategies that are usually used by teacher at
SDN I Jatirejo to enrich the student’s vocabulary, such as: definition, self-defining
context, realia, reading the words, writing the words, and games.
Meanwhile, there is another research on the strategy done by students in
learning vocabulary. It was done by Bei Zhang (2011) about the vocabulary learning
strategies used by Chinese students. The result shows that there are several kinds of
learning strategies used by Chinese students to master vocabulary, they are listening
and reading, learning words in sentence, using bilingual dictionary, reading English
books in spare time, studying the spelling.
From the all theories above about the strategies in mastery vocabulary, the
researcher has the experiment in the learning and mastering vocabulary in different
strategies, and this strategies frequently used by santri in Darussalam Gontor
boarding school. Santri is the students who study in the boarding school. As a
boarding school, Darussalam Gontor boarding school has already developed a unique
model of English teaching. It provides both formal and informal language
environment. Formally, Darussalam Gontor boarding school adopts and synthesizes
2
very up to date language theories and language learning theories as bases for
conducting teaching and learning activities. Informally, Darussalam Gontor boarding
school creates a good environment where the learners are enforced to use English as
their everyday communication. Wherever and whenever they go to or stay in the
boarding school they have to use English. In daily activity, in the morning santri will
be given some vocabulary which has been prepared previously by their seniors. The
senior will provide vocabulary by using direct method.
By this phenomenon, the researcher is interested to know the strategies that
are used by santri Darussalam Gontor boarding school in mastery vocabulary.
1.2 Statement of Problem
Based on the research background of the study above, the research problem of
this study is:
What are the strategies used by santris to promote the vocabulary quantity?
1.3 Purpose of the study
Related to the research problems, the purposes of the study this research is:
To know the strategies used by santris to promote the vocabulary mastery.
1.4 Significance of the study
3
The theoretical significance of this research is expected to be able to
increasing the knowledge about the strategies that used by santri in Darussalam
Gontor boarding school to promote the vocabulary mastery. By knowing how to
promote English vocabulary by santri in Darussalam Gontor boarding school, is
expected to enrich our knowledge in English vocabulary learning strategies.
Furthermore, for the next researcher, this research is expected to have some
improvement and give more knowledge to make the next better research.
1.5 Scope and limitation of the study
In this research the writer is interested in investigating the learning vocabulary
strategies by santri. Because of his limited time, source, knowledge and experience
before in the boarding school before, the scope of this study focuses on the learning
strategies used by santri Darussalam Gontor boarding school in mastering
vocabulary.
1.6 Definition of the Key Terms
1. Vocabulary is a word described as a sound or a combination of sounds, or its
representation in writing or printing that symbolizes and communicates a meaning
(Ying He. 2010:11)
4
2. Santri The word santri was derived from the word "Cantrik" (Sanskrit), which
means people who always follow the teacher, which developed by Perguruan Taman
Siswa in boarding system called Pawiyatan (Madjid (1997 : 19-20)
5