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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW
A. Teaching
The definition of teaching according
to Oxford Advanced Lea rners Dictiona ry,
giving information about it; to show somebody how to do something so that they will be
to do something, giving instructions, guiding in the study of something, providing with kn
is done by the teacher to give knowledge to the students and the teacher should make the
students understand about the subject they learn. To be a good teacher, there are some issues that teacher should point out:
1. a teacher should make their lessons interesting.
2. a teacher must love their job.
3. a teacher should have their own personality.
4. a teacher should have a lot of knowledge.
5. a teacher is an entertainer in a positive sense not in negative sense.
Harmer,1998:1-2
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5 In teaching activities, the teachers must control their students in the class. The
teacher transfers the message of the knowledge to the students and the students will receive the message from the teacher. High motivation is helpful and important in
teaching learning activity. The students have high motivation to learn and teacher should have high motivation to teach them.
The teacher is one and the only person who has the important role to teach the students and to settle the behavior of the students during in the school. Less
motivation can make the students lazy to follow teaching learning activity. The teacher does not only deliver the material but also gives facilitation, instruction, and
motivation.
B. Learning
successful if the
is acquiring or getting off subject or a skill by study, experience, or
Moreover, Douglas Brown in his book
Principles of La ngua ge Lea rning a nd Tea ching
extracts the definition of learning into some points as follows: 1.
2. learning is a retention of information or skill.
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3. retention implies storage system, memory, cogntive, organization.
4. learning involves active, conscious focus on acting upon events outside or inside
the organism. 5.
learning is relatively permanent but subject forgetting. 6.
learning involves some form of practice, perhaps reinforced practice. 7.
learning is a change in behavior. Brown,1994:7
C. Teaching Vocabulary
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