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students to learn vocabulary by knowing the real thing by pictures. Wright 1984: 81 also stated that he believes that the learners will enjoy and derive value from
the board games. Due to the facts above, the writer is interested in carrying out a study on
“Improving Students’ Vocabulary Mastery through Board Games“A Classroom Action Research at the Fourth Grade Students of SD Negeri Cengklik II,
Surakarta in 20092010 Academic Year
B. Statement of the Problem
1. Can board games improve student’s vocabulary mastery? 2. What happened when board games were employed in teaching vocabulary?
3. What are the strengths and the weaknesses of board games?
C. The Objectives of the Study
Generally, the study is conducted to improve the students’ vocabulary mastery at the fourth grade students of SD N Cengklik II Surakarta.
The study is conducted to get the information in some terms. First, the research is conducted to find out the ability of board games to improve students’
vocabulary mastery and whether the use of board games can improve the quality of vocabulary teaching process at the fourth grade students of SD N Cengklik II
Surakarta or not. Second, the research is conducted to find out the classroom situation when board games were employed in teaching vocabulary. Third, the
research is to evaluate the strengths and the weaknesses of board games in teaching vocabulary.
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D. The Benefits of the Study
The writer expects that the result of the study gives benefits for some aspect involved. The intended benefits are:
1. The writer hopes that this study gives contributions in improving the students’ vocabulary mastery. From the method used, it is expected that the
students will also have great motivations to learn vocabulary using Board games. The implementation of word games in learning vocabulary could be
a more fun way of effective vocabulary learning. Word games can be one of choices to play when the students need a pleasure simultaneously with
learning vocabularies. 2. The teacher can use a new alternative to teach vocabulary. This study is
expected will give more information about vocabulary learning to the teachers. Then, the teachers will more understand about problems and
difficulties in vocabulary teaching. It can be an alternative for the teachers to solve the problems arises in teaching and learning vocabularies.
3. The school institutions can take the result of the study that is useful for formulating an appropriate method for teaching English through Board
games and make an appropriate follow up based on it. The result of this research can motivate other English teachers to implement the same
technique to solve the same problems in their class. 4. The writer expects that this research will give her a wider knowledge about
vocabulary mastery and the way to improve it.
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5. Hopefully, the result of this study can provide a clear description about teaching vocabulary. The study may become a reference for further
researches on the same topic for other researchers.
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CHAPTER II THEORIES UNDERLYING THE STUDY
