Research Problems Problem Limitation

educational problems in Indonesia which remains to be solved and it is by conducting educational research that those problems can be solved for the sake of the future generations to come. The study will also enrich the researcher’s knowledge of vocabulary learning techniques in general. While doing the research, the researcher had to read a lot of books and internet articles that discuss vocabulary learning and teaching. All of the things that the researcher got from reading those books will be enormously great additions to the researcher’s existing knowledge and, hopefully , to the researcher’s bank of vocabulary teaching techniques. 2. The students After being exposed to a completely different kind of vocabulary learning technique, which is guessing from context, the students will be able to employ the learning technique to enrich their English vocabulary without relying too much on the use of bilingual dictionaries. As guessing from context can be employed without a teacher’s guidance, the students will be able to use the technique whenever necessary. For instance, when a student is taking a TOEFL test, he is likely to find reading segments in which there are several reading passages with many unknown words. While it is impossible to look up a dictionary, he needs to make a guess to determine the words’ meanings to completely comprehend the passages, and, eventually, to correctly answer the questions. 3. The lecturers Hopefully, the results of the study will give birth to some new ideas for the lecturers at the English Extension Course of Sanata Dharma University Yogyakarta on how vocabulary learning can be learned in a completely different, meaningful way.

F. Definition of Terms

As the reader reads the paper, there will be several important terms, which the researcher may need to define so as not to bring confusion and misunderstanding to the reader. The terms include guessing from context, vocabulary learning, and first semester students of the English Extension Course. 1. Guessing from Context Guessing from context has been long identified and included as one of the strategies which language learners employ to acquire a new language. The strategy was mentioned by J. Michael O’Malley and Anna Uhl Chamot in their book, Learning Strategies, published in 1990. Several experts have proposed their own procedures for guessing from context. Clarke and Nation’s guessing from context procedure was the one used by the researcher in the experimental study. 2. Vocabulary Learning Perhaps the best definition of vocabulary learning can be summed up from Schmitt 1997, who defined vocabulary learning strategy as “any strategy that results in the learning of vocabulary” as cited in Ozturk, p. 21. From that concept, the researcher concludes that vocabulary learning is any process which “results in the learning of vocabulary”.