7 level to learn English. It is also expected in the future that the researchers can
know the underlying reasons of using the methods and media during the teaching process.
F. Definition of Terms
This section presents the definition of term used in this study. The terms defined here are the methods, media, teaching vocabulary, and the pre-school
students in
“Speak First”. 1.
Methods
According to Brown 2001: 16, a method is a generalized set of classroom specification for accomplishing linguistic objectives. Methods tend to
be concerned primarily with teacher and students roles and behaviors and secondarily with such features as linguisitc and subject-matter objectives and
materials. In this study, the methods refer to the generalized set of classroom
specification which is conducted by the English teacher in teaching vocabulary to
“Speak First” pre-school students during the teaching-learning process. The
methods which are used will be effective for the students in understanding vocabulary. Moreover, the teachers can improve their creativity in teaching
vocabulary based on its various genres so that the students grasp more the words that they learn.
2. Media
According to Soeparno 1988: 1, “media is a mean that are used by the
teachers as a channel to deliver a message from one resource to the receiver.” In
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students. The information is the lesson that students have to learn in every meeting. The purpose of media is to communicate the transformation of
knowledge from the teachers to the students. In this study, media are used appropriately based on the teaching methods which are applied by the English
teacher in teaching vocabulary to pre-school students. One method can be used with the same and different media in the teaching-learning process. The examples
of media are pictures and real things.
3. Teaching Vocabulary
According to Channel 1988, “a new vocabulary item is acquired when the learner can identify its meaning in and out of context and it can be used
naturally and appropriately.” There are five genres of vocabularies; those are vocabulary of noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and chunks. What are learnt by pre-
school students are vocabulary of noun and vocabulary of chunks. In this study, teaching vocabulary refers to how the teachers teach vocabulary of noun and
chunks, then to how pre-school students learn and respond to those kinds of vocabularies as the basic knowledge in learning English in the future. Allen
1983 pointed out that “it is useful to provide the learner with words for „classroom language‟ just at the early stages of the course. It is important for the
teacher to predict what words the student needs to know for talking about everyday life, people, and things surrounding them.”
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4. Pre-school Students in “Speak First”
