each topic, the researcher divided the activities into three parts, namely opening, main activities and closing. The researcher also defined four steps that were used to teach
English vocabulary. The steps were introducing, modeling, practicing and applying. The introducing and modeling were done in the opening part. Then, the practicing
and applying were done in the main activity part. And the last was reviewing the material which was done in the closing part.
a. Topic I
The first topic was conducted on August 13 and 20, 2009. The topic was “Number.” Each meeting lasted for about 45 minutes. In the opening part, the
researcher introduced vocabularies about number from 1 to 10 to the pupils. A picture dictionary by Gina Hsueh was used by the researcher to help the pupils to acquire
vocabularies about number. In this activity, the researcher showed some pictures in the dictionary and counted it. Then, the researcher asked the pupils to look at the
pictures and pronounce the vocabulary items which were said. All of the pupils had to follow the teacher to pronounce the words correctly. The pupils could pronounce the
vocabularies well. Most of the pupils had also memorized the meaning of each vocabulary well. It was showed from their ability to do the researcher’s instruction to
count things around class. The researcher also asked the pupils to count their fingers and all of them did well. By pronouncing the vocabularies and counting the numbers,
the pupils improved their linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligence. The example of the picture dictionary was shown below:
• The pupils looked at the picture and pronounced the vocabularies stated on it. The pupils were supposed to count the picture stated in the picture
dictionary
The researcher also used ten stars made from colored paper to help the pupils to memorize the vocabularies. The teacher asked the pupils to count the stars that were
showed by the teacher. In this activity, the pupils could count the stars well. The example of the picture was shown on the following page:
• The pupils looked at the number in the stars and pronounced the number stated on it.
The pupils were supposed to pronounce the number on the stars
