Background of the study

Syaidati Ifdari : A Brief Description Of How To Enrich And Use Learner’s English Vocabulary, 2009. USU Repository © 2009

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the study

In the world, people need a common language so that all of people any country in the world can communicate to other people. According to Siahaan 2008:1 “Language is a set of rules used by human as a tool of their communication. The use of language is governed by the conventional rules shared by the speakers of the language. Each of them must obey the rules. Otherwise, they can not use it effectively for the sake of their communication. They can not communicate well. Event most, they can not understand each other. Therefore, in order to be successful to join commutative interaction, the members of speech community must use their language according to the conventional rules they share among themselves”. English is international language. It is used by all of country in the world. Although every countries have native language in, but they have the second language to communication to other people in the world. The language is English. So, to enter the international world we need English to communicate. We have known that learning English is very important. We learn English not only to pass examination, but also to improve our knowledge about English and also to develop our ability in English to communicate. Learning English by enriching our vocabulary can increase our skill in English. Vocabulary is about words. A good vocabulary is an important part of effective communication. A command of many words will make us a better writer, speaker, listener, and reader, because having good vocabulary makes us easy to understand meaning in reading from each word in it, easy to choose Syaidati Ifdari : A Brief Description Of How To Enrich And Use Learner’s English Vocabulary, 2009. USU Repository © 2009 effective words to write, easy to speak about what we want to tell to someone and they understand it. What happens if we do not know about words that we want to use? Of course, we are not confident and brave to speak. Perhaps, many people are confused because they do not understand. To be a good listener, because we can understand what they say to us in English and of course, we can respect it directly without asking again what they say. Besides that, we will often listen to the radio, songs and news on TV in English. So, learning and controlling vocabulary is very important to overcome all of difficulties which are met in English. A research found that good vocabularies, more than any others factors was common to people enjoying successful career, and also studies have shown that student with a strong vocabulary and students who work to improve a vocabulary are more successful in school. However, it must be supported by a good grammar. Having good vocabulary without a good grammar is impossible for us to understand reading. So, our skill in English will be perfect and then we have to always improve continually our vocabulary. In this paper, the writer chose the topic of vocabulary. The writer wanted to describe some ways of enriching vocabulary. The writer wants to improve her ability in English. We can do everything besides learning vocabulary, like learning grammar, conversation, and how they are used because we do not only enrich vocabulary but we use it in conversation, in making sentences, etc. In this case, the writer cannot hope so much, she only hopes that the paper can be helpful and useful for all, especially, to improve our English vocabulary. Syaidati Ifdari : A Brief Description Of How To Enrich And Use Learner’s English Vocabulary, 2009. USU Repository © 2009 Speaking English well with enough vocabulary; the difficulties in English will be overcome.

1.2 The Scope of the Study