have been printed. The kind of word flashcards used is the modification of word cards. Based on Hinkel 2005:591, word cards are cards where the teacher writes the
English word on one side of the card and its definition or synonym or pronunciation on another. According to Thornbury 2002:145, word cards are a set of cards printed
with words in each side of the cards, where the second language is printed on the front side and the first language on the back side. From this definition, the researcher
created word flashcards that have two sides. The word is written on the front side and the meaning is on the back side. Then, Hatch and Brown 1995:3 state that words
can be divided into eight different word classes, namely 1 nouns, 2 verbs, 3 adjectives, 4 adverbs, 5 pronouns, 6 prepositions, 7 conjunctions, 8
determiner. In this research, the researcher only focused on nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs that were investigated because based on the preliminary study, the
students were mostly taught nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. The examples of word flashcards are as follows.
Front Back
2.3 The Definition of a Descriptive Text and Its Social Function
According to the 2006 Institutional Level Curriculum for Junior High School, there are two types of text that should be taught to the seventh grade students. They
are procedure and descriptive texts. In this research, the vocabulary taught to the students were taken from the descriptive text because it was taught to the seventh
grade students in the second semester. According to Artono 2008:115, a descriptive text is a text to describe a
particular person, place or thing. The social function of descriptive text is to describe a particular person, place or thing. The generic structures of descriptive text are
identification which introduces a subject or a thing that will be described, and
BEAUTIFUL TOMORROW
CANTIK BESOK
description which describes the characteristics of the subject. The language features of descriptive text are the use of simple present tense, adjectives, and using adverbs in
the sentences. The descriptive texts that were used in this research were adapted from the
internet because the Internet is continuously updated, more visually stimulating as well as being interactive, therefore promoting a more active approach to reading
rather than a passive one. From a more practical point of view, the internet is a modern day reality, most students use it and for teachers, there is easier access to
endless amounts of many different types of material Berardo, 2006:62. In this research, the researcher did not use the descriptive texts from the
internet directly, but she checked them first. If the researcher found some mistakes or errors in their vocabulary or grammar, she made some corrections on them. It was
because the descriptive texts from the internet were used as the materials in teaching vocabulary integratedly with the reading skill, so the materials should be in the
correct form. For that reasons, the descriptive texts were used in this classroom action research were as materials adapted from the internet with some revision or correction
if it needed. The following is the example of a descriptive text:
Sule
His full name is Entis Sutisna. People call him Sule. He is a famous comedian in Indonesia.
Sule was born on 15 November 1976 in Bandung, West Java. He speaks Sundanese fluently.
He also learns Javanese. Sule is very unique. His hair is long with brown and yellow color. He has an oval
face, flat nose and slanting eyes. People know Sule as a ridiculous man and full of jokes. He is very
funny. His joke makes everyone smiles even belly laughing. Sule plays in several TV shows such as
DESCRIPTION IDENTIFICATION
Opera Van Java OVJ, Awas Ada Sule, PAS Mantab, and Saung Sule. He also can sing very well.
He has very famous song entitled Susis Suami Sieun Istri.
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2.4 The Procedures of Using Flashcards in Teaching Vocabulary
