2.2.3.2 Principle of Teaching Vocabulary
Cameron 2001: 81 exclaims about several principles of teaching vocabulary to young learners are:
a. Types of words that children find possible learn with shift. b. Vocabulary development is not just learning more words but it is also
importance about expanding and depending word knowledge. c. Word and words knowledge can be seen as being linked in network of
meaning. d. Basic level words are likely to be more appropriate for children or when
learning vocabulary for new concept. e. Children change in how they can learn words. Whereas the very young
learner will learn words as collections, older children are much more able to make connection between the words they learn, organization of the
word and concept as a help in vocabulary learning.
2.2.3.3 Learning Vocabulary
Vocabulary mastery is important in learning English. If we have much vocabulary, we can also have good English skills because vocabulary is the basic
in learning English. We need vocabulary when we want to speak, read, listen, and also write something.
Learning vocabulary is learning about number of words that make up a language. It is essential in language learning. It also can improve students‟
vocabulary mastery.
2.2.3.4 Improving Students’ Vocabulary Mastery
Oxford Dictionary defines the word improving as the process of becoming or making to the better. While the word student means a person who is studying at a
college or university and person studying at secondary school or any person interested in a particular subject Oxford University Press; 2008: 441.
Vocabulary mastery is the knowledge or skill to control in understanding the new words in a language.
Pavicic 1999 in http:www.teachingenglish.org.ukthinkvocabulary
vocabautonomy.shtml states that in the context of learning English as a foreign
language, a learner is forced to be autonomous and independent and make conscious effort to learn vocabulary outside the classroom simply because the
exposure to the target language is limited in class. This makes explicit vocabulary teaching necessary.
He added that in order to help their learners first of all, ways of presenting new vocabulary should be varied. In order to improve the efficiency of vocabulary
learning memorizing and retrieving lexical items students should be encouraged to make use of learning strategies that are at their disposal, and be taught, either
implicitly or explicitly, new strategies for vocabulary learning. From those explanations above, the writer can say that improving students‟
vocabulary mastery is the process of helping students to be better in quality for mastering vocabularies in learning foreign language especially English.
2.2.3.5 Testing Vocabulary
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