Inggris-Indonesia and Indonesia-Inggris dictionaries available and the students could not borrow them into the classroom. Many students do not have a dictionary
and it was hard to ask them to buy the good one, since they come from middle-to- low economic families.
C. Limitation of Problems
Based on the identification of problems above, there are some problems related to the teaching and learning process. It is impossible for me to solve all
those problems. So, this research is only limited on improving Grade VII students’
vocabulary mastery in SMP Institut Indonesia Yogyakarta. The collaborator and the researcher decided to overcome this problem by using vocabulary cards
because vocabulary cards are rarely used to teach vocabulary. The teacher seemed to use mo
notonous technique so that it influenced the students’ interest toward the lesson. It can also be one of the factors that influence the low level of the students’
vocabulary mastery. Therefore, in order to make the vocabulary learning more interesting and
fun, we decided to use vocabulary cards to improve students’ vocabulary mastery in SMP Institut Indonesia.
There are some reasons why the collaborator and the researcher chose vocabulary cards to improves the students’ vocabulary mastery, 1 Vocabulary
cards may help students to facilitate them to improve their vocabulary. 2 Vocabulary cards are used as a personal dictionary for every student that can
be as medium to improve their vocabulary. 3 Vocabulary cards are also easy to create. 4 It is easy to bring and also can be the instrument to play game. 5 It is
also simple teaching instruments because it does not need additional instruments,
such as, projectors, computer or laptop, etc., to support vocabulary cards in teaching-learning process. This learning strategy is expected to make the students
more active in English class, motivated and enjoy the teaching-learning process.
D. Problem Formulation
In referring to the background of the study above, the identification of problems, and the limitation of problems, the research question is formulated as
follows: How to improve students’ vocabulary mastery using vocabulary cards of Grade VII students at SMP Institut Indonesia Yogyakarta?
E. The Objective of The Study
Based on the formulation of the problems above, this study is aimed at improving students’ vocabulary mastery through the use of vocabulary cards of
Grade VII students of SMP Institut Indonesia Yogyakarta.
F. Significances of the Study
The results of this study are expected to give benefits for 3 groups: 1. The English teacher
It is expected that the teacher gets more information about one of the appropriate activities. In this case are vocabulary cards. So the teacher is hoped to
create an interesting teaching and learning process by using vocabulary cards. Hopefully the data of the research could be also useful for the teacher.
2. The students
This study is expected to encourage the students to master the English lesson, to feel relaxed when they learn English lesson and solve their problems in
understanding the meaning of the word in the sentence, because the teacher uses the suitable technique in teaching. Therefore, the students can use the vocabulary
that they have learned in the communication.
3. Other researchers This study is expected to give new knowledge to other researchers to do
the better research of teaching and learning cases, and to solve the students’ vocabulary problems, and to the teachers that have the similar problem with this
researcher. 4. The School
It is expected that the information of the result is useful for getting success in the teaching learning process, so the quality of the teaching and learning
process could be increased. The result of the research is also hoped to improve
students’ achievement in English lesson standard.
