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1. Identification of the Field Problems
Based on the preliminary observation and interview done on August 5
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2016, there were some problems found in the grade eight students’ vocabulary mastery. The problems were as follows.
The first problem on the students’ vocabulary mastery was the students’ stereotype that learning English was difficult because they did not know the
vocabulary. Furthermore, the teacher rarely gave the students vocabulary building lesson. So, the students relied on the teacher to translate the English words for
them. Another problem was that the students rarely brought dictionary to the class. Thereore, they could not find the mearning of the unkown words
autonomously. The next problem was lack of media use in the classroom activity. Since the school already provided the LCDs in every class, the teacher often used
Power Point as the media in the teaching and learning process. However, the teacher still needed to take the remote also the HDMI cable at the administration
office which took a lot of time to set it up. It took some time to get the Power Point ready. There were rarely other supporting media used in the classroom to
help the students understand the lesson better. In addition, the researcher conducted a pre-
test to find out the students’ vocabulary mastery. The pre-test was on August 9
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2016 for class VIII A and August 12
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2016 for class VIII B. The result of the pre-test showed that the students had poor vocabulary mastery. It could be seen on the table 1.
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Table 1:
The Average of the Students’ Pre-test Score NO.
Class Average
Score 0-100 1
VIII A 34,75
2 VIII B
39,53
From the table above, it showed that none of the students in neither class VIII A nor VIII B passed the minimum score 75. It proved that the students’
vocabulary mastery were poor. Therefore, it was nessesary to conduct a study in order to improve the students’ vocabulary mastery.
2. Identification of the Field Problems to Solve
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