support learning activities. Learning materials can be obtained from realia e.g. pictures from magazines and newspaper, audiovisual sources e.g. video and
television, or from internet. The materials are to provide learners with sufficient sources of learning, to encourage learners to learn, and to offer rich contents of
language exposures for the learners.
B. Theoretical Framework
Learning English requires learning its vocabulary. Therefore, learning English will be easier for learners who have much stock of words. Having much
stock of words helps the learners both actively and passively towards learning second language vocabulary, for instance in reading a textbook, understanding
others’ talking, and giving a basic knowledge to speak. Knowing the importance of learning vocabulary, it is better to start
teaching vocabulary when learners are still young. In addition, children as young learners are easier to learn a new language since they are in the critical period. It
enables them to process the language in their left hemisphere, where the language is processed, much more easily.
As a part of language teaching learning process, language-teaching method is occupied from past to now on. This study occupies Task-Based Learning to
teach vocabulary for the second grade students of elementary school. Within this method, meaningful tasks are employed in order to support learning. It aims to
encourage the learners to experience with the target language in real language use. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
Implementing such meaningful tasks becomes the focus of this study. It is based on the reasons provided by some other researchers such as Richards et al,
1986; Nunan, 1989; Willis, 1996 who work on the same field as this study. It is because Task-Based Learning utilizes tasks that promote language learning for the
learners, for instance by providing various activities which result in real language use. Moreover, besides concerning with meaning, Task-Based Learning also
concerns with the form of the target language. It has the purpose to provide the learners with language ability and to improve their grammatical ability.
This study discusses the most possible implementation of Task-Based Learning to teach vocabulary for the second grade students of elementary school
and the influential factors towards the implementation of this method to teach vocabulary for them. Through this study, the researcher attempts to analyze that in
what situation Task-Based Learning can best be applied in classroom activity and what supporting and inhibiting factors that influence the implementation.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter discusses the method of the study. This chapter also presents the participants and setting of time and place of the study, instruments associated
with the study, data gathering techniques, data analysis procedure, and research procedures.
A. Research Method
This research was a qualitative research that employed an observational- field research as the research method. It was due to the reason that this research
allowed the researcher to observe a phenomenon naturally in a particular setting without any predetermined hypothesis. Thus, the observational method was
employed in this research in order to make it accordance with the phenomenon to be investigated. It was meant to gain insight on learners’ language learning
processes by investigating learners’ background and their language proficiency. This method also enabled the researcher not to be devoid from the phenomenon
that the research intended to examine. Accordingly, this research required interaction with the participants intensively through learning experiences held in
classroom. Ary et al. 1979: 295 proposed that the investigation of phenomenon
through various methods provided an opportunity for the researcher to develop insight into aspect of human behavior. Thus, data obtained from the methods
