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vocabulary learning strategies. The findings shows that Taiwanese senior high school teachers aware about their vocabulary learning strategies. Vocabulary
learning activities which popular among Taiwanese teachers are oral repetition, extensive reading, self-testing and a variety of partially contextualized
vocabulary learning activities.
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Moreover, vocabulary learning strategies which are considered as useful strategies are implemented by the teacher in classroom.
Lastly, a journal entitled Function-Based vs. Meaning Based in Teaching Vocabulary. This journal is written by M. A. G. Hassankiadeh which is
conducted in Iran. The purpose of this study i s to know the effects of teachers’
beliefs about vocabulary teaching on learners’ vocabulary intake. There are 100 EFL students and 3 teachers as participants of this study. The findings of this
study shows that the EFL learners who taught by function-based lexicon teaching beliefs had better result in vocabulary test than learners who were taught by
meaning-based lexicon teaching beliefs.
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Those studies discuss about vocabulary learning strategies. However, they do not discuss about kind of vocabulary that are considered by student teachers in
internship program. The study on vocabulary commonly focuses on in-service teachers and students. Therefore, the difference between the previous studies
with this study is the subject of the study.
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Yu-Ling Lai, Thesis: Teaching Vocabulary Learning Strategies: Awareness, Beliefs, and Practices. A Survey of Taiwanese EFL Senior High School Teachers Taiwan: University of Essex, 2005, 30
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M. A. G. Hassankiadeh , “Function-Based vs Meaning-Based Beliefs in Teaching Vocabulary”.
Function-Based vs. Meaning Based in Teaching Vocabulary. Vol. 5 No. 4, 2012, 30-31
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
This chapter explains about research methodology which is used to collect and analyze the data. It involves approach and research design, researcher presence,
research location, data and source of data, data collection technique, research instruments, data analysis technique, checking validity of findings and research
stages.
A. Approach and Research Design
This study used qualitative study. Qualitative study focuses on understanding social phenomena
based on participants’ perspectives.
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In addition, the aim of qualitative descriptive is to get a comprehensive
summarization from specific events experienced by participants.
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Thus, the result of qualitative descriptive study is the description of data from partic
ipants’ explanation about their opinion or experiences. In addition, the researcher
interprets human behaviors in context. Therefore, on this study the researcher made interpretation of
student teachers’ opinion and about kinds of vocabulary learning strategies that they consider to their students and their practices.
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D. Ary, L. C. Jacobs - C. K. Sorensen, Introduction to Research in Education Belmont: Wadsworth, 2006, 22
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Vicki A. Lambert – Clinton E. Lambert,”Editorial: Quaitative Descriptive Research an Acceptable
Design ”. Pacific Rim International Journal of Nursing Research. Vol. 16 No. 4, 2012, 255
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This study explained the result of the study in description. Thus, descriptive approach used as the approach on this study. Descriptive approach
integrates the description of people and place in narrative.
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It means that the researcher describes the result of data about kinds of vocabulary learning
strategies that student teachers consider and used in internship program. Based on explanation above, this research used qualitative descriptive
since the aim of this study is to explain kinds of vocabulary learning strategies that student think as useful strategies and their implementation in internship
program. Thereby, qualitative descriptive is appropriate design for this study.
B. Researcher Presence
The role of researcher is as the research instrument. Lincoln and Guba as cited in Peredaryenko and Krauss state that the concept of researcher as the
instrument since the researcher’s role in the process of scientific analysis.
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In addition, researcher role in qualitative research is as the planner and someone
who interpret the instruments in order to understand the meaning, increase the critical awareness, emancipation and movement through their qualities of
sensitivity, responsiveness and flexibility.
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In the other words, researcher role in this research is important on this study since her presence is as the human
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J.W. Creswell, Education Research: Planning, Conduction and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research 4
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Ed. Boston: Pearson, 2002. 274
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M. S. Peredaryenko - S. E. Krauss, “Calibrating the Human Instrument: Understanding the
Interviewing Experience of Novice Qualitative Researchers ”. The Qualitative Report. Vol. 18 No. 85,
2013, 1
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