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1.2 Reasons for Choosing Topic
The researcher chooses the visual media namely TV Cards Thematic Vocabulary Cards as the topic of this research. TV Cards is a set of cards containing 5 big
cards and 25 small cards which can be used to help the students in learning new English vocabulary. This topic is finally chosen because of some reasons:
1 Vocabulary is important
Based on Mukoroli ‟s 2011: 7 theory, it can be inferred that vocabulary is
considered as one of the most prominent aspects in learning language, that is why it is important to find out how to improve students‟ proficiency in English
vocabulary. 2
Students are lack of vocabulary mastery Unfortunately, what the researcher found after doing her preliminary study was:
most of the students observed were lack of vocabulary mastery. It seemed like they faced a difficulty in understanding and remembering all of the words given in
the lesson at once. 3
Learning vocabulary is a boring activity The students claimed that the most difficult part in learning English is to
memorize the new vocabulary. They even confessed that they usualy feel bored every time they had to learn vocabulary.
4 The media have not been explored a lot
Because of the importance of vocabulary, it is needed to find a solution for the students‟ problem in mastering English vocabulary. One of them is by creating
media which can be used in teaching vocabulary. Unfortunately, the interesting
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media which can help the students to learn vocabulary have not been explored a lot.
1.3 Research Questions
Research questions proposed in this research are: 1.
Does TV CardsThematic Vocabulary Cards improve the students‟ English
vocabulary mastery? 2.
How does TV CardsThematic Vocabulary Cards improve the students‟
English vocabulary mastery?
1.4 Purposes of the Study
The purposes of this study can be stated as follows: 1.
To find out whether or not TV Cards improve students‟ English vocabulary
mastery. 2.
To know howTV Cardsimprove students‟ English vocabulary mastery.
1.5 Significancesof the Study
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