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students work. The students usually get better result when doing the vocabulary games.
Games gave the students an opportunity to take part in teaching process. By using games in teaching process, the writer gave an opportunity to the students to
show their ability in completing the games. The students not only listen to the explanation, but they could also apply the material they have studied.
Games can help the students’ concentration in studying vocabulary. Children could enjoy the lesson which is fun. By using games, the writer attracted the
students to have fun in studying. When they feel fun, they will pay attention to the lesson. Therefore they could keep their concentration to the lesson.
From the explanation above, the writer can conclude that games is very effective in teaching English vocabulary.
E. The Problems of Teaching English Vocabulary Using Games to the 4
th
Grade Students of SD Negeri Gawanan 01 Colomadu
Teaching English vocabulary using games was a very fun activity. Besides that, the writer also found some difficulties when teaching the fourth grade. The
problems divided into two categories. They are linguistic problems and non- linguistic problems. The problems that the writer found will be detailed below.
1. Linguistic problems
a. The problem in writing the English vocabulary
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When writing the English vocabulary, the students often get a mistake to write some letters of the vocabulary. For example:
the students wrote the word “ cabbage” with single “b”.
b. The problem in pronouncing the English vocabulary
Correct pronounciation is needed to make the meaning of the vocabulary clear. the students in fourth grade class were
still influenced by javanesse. Therefore, they usually pronounce the vocabulary incorectly. For example: they said the word
“carrot” by “karot”. The correct pronounciation is kær.ət 2.
Non-linguistic problems a.
The students’ equipment. Some student often forgot their textbook or didn’t bring
their dictionary when learning English. They took a long time to find the meaning of difficult vocabulary in their textbook.
When doing the homework, they often used their notebook. Because of that behavior, sometimes they lost their homework
result. b.
The outside factor. In this case, the factor was the students from the other class.
When the other class beside the fourth grade class finished the lesson, the student of that class usually make a noise. They
often run in front of the classroom. They always talk loudly and stand in front of the fourth grade classroom or near the
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windows. It made the students who studied in the classroom couldn’t concentrate to the lesson.
c. The lack motivation of the students in doing homework.
The students in the fourth grade of SD N Gawanan I were lack of motivation in doing homework. When the writer
checked the students’ homework, the writer found that there are some students who didn’t fully do their homework. These
students left some questions without answer. It was influenced to their homework mark. This problem also proved that the
students didn’t review the material after they were in home.
F. The Solutions of the Problems
