c. Matching
1. Requesting the students to make groups of 4 four. 2. Distributing a table which consists of two columns A and B
3. Distributing a set of word cards of containing 20 cards which contains meaning words.
4. Asking the students to stick the cards in column B based on the pictures or meaning words in column A.
Heaton, 1991:58
No. A
B
1 lazy
2 papaya
3 weight
4 hospital
2.3 Teaching Vocabulary in Junior High School
As stated by Igbaria 2010:1, vocabulary is needed for understanding meaning in receptive skill listening and reading and for expressing meaning on
productive speaking and writing skills. Therefore, in junior High School,
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pepaya
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vocabulary is usually taught integratedly with the four language skills, although some teachers sometimes teach vocabulary independently.
Based on the 2013 Curriculum, English subject for the seventh grade of Junior High School is given 4 hours in a week, in which every hour takes 40
minutes. The materials given cover descriptive texts, functional texts, and some expressions related to daily life contexts. Therefore, vocabulary materials taught
to the students of grade seven are taken from those materials. In this research, the researcher taught vocabulary to the students
integratedly with reading skill, especially by using a descriptive text. The text type was chosen based on the 2013 Curriculum.
2.4 Descriptive Text
Descriptive text is a kind of text that describes particular persons, places or things with the purpose to give information to the readers.
The social function of descriptive text is to inform about the characteristics of a particular person, place, or thing.
The generic structures of descriptive text are as follows: •
Identification : identifying phenomenon to be described
• Description : describing a person, a place, or a thing in details including the
parts, the quality, or the characteristics being described. The language features of descriptive text are as follows:Using certain noun
a. Using simple present tense b. Using adjective
c. Using adverbs Sundarwati and Grace: 2007
The Example of Descriptive Text is in the following. Sule
His full name is Entis Sutisna. People call him Sule. He is a famous comedian in Indonesia.
IDENTIFICATION
Sule was born on 15 November 1976 in Bandung, West Java. He speaks Sundanese
fluently. He also learns Javanese. Sule is very unique. His hair is long with brown and yellow
color. He has an oval face, flat nose and slanting eyes. People know Sule as a ridiculous man and
full of jokes. He is very funny. His joke make everyone smile even belly laughing. Sule plays in
several TV shows such as Opera Van Java OVJ, Awas Ada Sule, PAS Mantab, and Saung
Sule. He can also sing very well. He has a very famous song entitled Susis Suami Sieun Istri.
http:www.sekolahoke.com .
The language features used in the descriptive text above are as follows: d. Using certain noun, such as comedian, face, nose, eyes, jokes, color, Sule.,
etc. e. Using simple present tense
Example: •
People call him Sule. •
He also learns Javanese. f. Using adjectives
Example: Unique, long, funny, ridiculous, famous, oval, flat. g. Using adverb
Example: Fluently.
2.5 Research Hypothesis
