Teaching Vocabulary LITERATURE REVIEW

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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW

In this chapter, the writer discusses literature review that related to the topic of discussion. Here, the writer present five topics. There are about teaching, vocabulary, teaching vocabulary to young learner, games and types of games. All of that part of discussion will be explained below.

A. Teaching

Teaching has a lot of definitions. In general, according to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, teaching is to give somebody an information about a particular subject; to help somebody learn something Hornby, 1995: 1225. It means that through teaching, the teacher will help the learner in learning some informations. Brown states that teaching is showing or helping someone how to learn something, giving in the study of something, providing with knowledge, causing to know or to understand 2001: 7. In teaching, teacher should make students know and understand the study. While, according to James R. Davis “teaching is the interaction of students and teacher over a subject .” 1997: 1. There should be an interaction between students and teacher in teaching. It is required to deliver the subject successfully. 5 commit to user In conclusion, teacher has a role to deliver an information to the students and make the students understand the information. Teacher also has to make interaction to the students.

B. Vocabulary

Vocabulary has an important role in teaching because vocabulary is the basic of teaching English. Vocabulary has a lot of meanings. According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s dictionary, the word of vocabulary is defined as “a list of words with their meaning, especially one that accompanies a textbook in a foreign language” Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary New Edition, 1995: 1331. Vocabulary can help someone to understand a foreign lang uage’s text book with providing the meaning of it’s difficult words. Meanwhile, James Coady and Thomas Huckin gi ve an opinion “the vocabulary is central to language and critical importance to the typical language learner ” Coady and Huckin, 1997: 5 . In this case, someone needs to know vocabulary if they want to learn a language. Without vocabulary, they can not understand a language. Beside that “Vocabulary is the total number of word you know in a particular language ” Sinclair, 2001:1747 . When studying a language, learner must know some of the words in the language. The amount of the words that learner know is the meaning of vocbulary. commit to user From the statements above, it can be concluded that vocabulary is a list of words that has some meaning which students know in a language. And also vocabulary is a central of a language thay should be known by a learner.

C. Teaching Vocabulary to Young Learners