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4 developing the skills of speaking, 2 Imperatives are the main structures to transfer or
communicate information, 3 the students is not forced to speak, but is allowed an individual readiness period and allowed to spontaneously begin to speak when heshe
feels comfortable, confident in understanding and producing the utterances. Utilizing children’s song video and Total Physical Response as a media and a
method to teach vocabulary will make the children more interesting to the teaching learning process. Children’s song video is an interesting media because it is not only
make the students listen to the song but also they can see the moving pictures in the video. Besides that children’s song video closes to children’s world. It makes the
students feel happy, enjoy, and comfort in whole their activities in the teaching learning process.
Combining children’s song video through Total Physical Response will make the students doing some activities such as role play. Whole of the activities in the class will
make them learn the song in the video. They are not realizing that they are learning a language. Thus all the activity will make them fun and decrease the students stress
because they are learning while playing. Based on the illustration above, the researcher is interesting in carrying out a
study on “Utilizing Children’s Song Video to Improve Students’ Vocabulary Acquisition through Total Physical Response A Classroom Action Research at the Third Grade of
SD Negeri Masaran 2 Sragen in the Academic Years of 20102011.
B. Problem Statement
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5 From the background of the study, the problems can be formulated in the following
questions: 1. Can and to what extent children’s song video trough Total Physical Response
improve students’ vocabulary acquisition? 2. What is the situation when children’s song video through Total Physical
Response is applied in the English class?
C. Objectives of the Research
1. To identify can and to what extent children’s song video trough Total Physical Response improve students’ vocabulary acquisition?
2. To identify what is the situation when children’s song video through Total Physical Response is applied in the English class?
D. Benefits of the Study
The benefits of the study that the writer expects are: 1. For the students
By utilizing children’s song video through TPR the students can learn vocabulary better. They can study vocabulary while singing and acting like the song
video. They can memorize the words, spell the words, pronounce the lyrics, and do the commands better. They also can enjoy the teaching learning process thus they
are not frustrated when they are learning English subject in the class.
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6 2. For English teachers.
The study can give contribution to solve problems related how to teach vocabulary more fun and enjoy for young learner. If the teacher can choose an
appropriate media or a method to teach vocabulary for young learner like teaching vocabulary utilizing children’s song video through TPR that close to the children
world, it will be easy to the teacher in teaching and presenting new vocabulary to the students. The appropriate media and method also make the students fun and
enjoy the teaching learning process. 3. For FKIP college students.
The study can give inspiration to teach students in the young age. The inspiration from this study can be implemented when FKIP college students teach
young learner in the future. 4. For the researcher.
The study can give her understanding how to teach students vocabulary more fun, interesting, and enjoyable and also improve student’s vocabulary
acquisition. 5. For the reader of this thesis.
The reader can get some information from this study about teaching vocabulary for young learner.
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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW
