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ard the use of students’ native language in the vocabulary learning. It says that teaching vocabulary using students’ native ther tongue takes time which could b unimportant word in a reading text. When teacher’ goal is to help the the unimportant word in text, translation 2 various types of words will be easier ber of translation to help students to 3 they have understood something which was presented in another way. The Importance of Students’ Native Language There are some criticisms tow language will be a waste of time “The use of the mo etter be spent in using English” Nation, 1990, p.52-53. It surely states that using students’ mother tongue will cut the time allocation used to teach vocabulary. Despite the criticism above, Nation has found some advantages of that using the students’ native language to teach vocabulary. Those advantages are: 1 Translation can de done quickly The speed of translation is an advantage if teacher wants to pass over an students by avoiding explaining using students’ native language will be a good way because teacher can save time used to explain the unimportant word so the important word will have greater time to be explained. Translation is not limited It can be used to explain many different types of words. Using students’ native language the teaching of because it allows unlimited num understand the English vocabulary. The teacher can ask the learners to respond by using translation to see if use of students’ native language will help teacher to decide whether the teaching process of vocabulary is successful or not, because using students‘ From greate langua tudy the writer made use of principles in teaching and learning as cited by Gargiulo, http:books.google.co.id Cpg=PA208lpg=PA208dq=curriculum3Bdefniti onsou native language, students will be easier to give respond and comment to the teacher. the above advantages it is clear that learning English vocabulary will have r chances to be acquired by students if the usage of students’ native ge is considered important in the teaching and learning process. In the s vocabulary proposed by Nation. The theory will be the basis in developing the