Examples: Object
: About picture of Eyes. Teacher says
: “Eyes” Student Repeat
: “Eyes” Teacher says
: “This is my eyes” Students Repeat
: “This is my eyes” Activities
: The teacher shows picture of “Eyes” while talking “Eyes” and students repeated “Eyes” in chorus, and
then teacher make sentences about “Eyes” like as “This is my eyes” and students repeated the
sentences ” This is my eyes, so on.
For this, the teacher is hoped to give at least three examples for each practice, and teacher indicates with words or gestures for the
students. If the teacher wants to develop these words, teacher can make questions, statement and yesno questions, and other sentences according
to the level.
E. The Teaching of Vocabulary Using Translation Method
The writer concludes the illustrations of the activities of Translation method as the follow:
First the teacher greets the students and asks about their condition.
Example: Teacher says
: Good morning students Students repeat
: Good morning teacher Teacher says
: How are you today? Students repeat
: We are fine, thank you. The class began the teacher asks the student to open their book
and read their textbook entitled “My Face”.
After they read, the teacher asks the students to find the difficult word from the passage.
The teacher writes the vocabularies on the whiteboard and the teacher translate them and gives the meaning of each word. For
example the teacher writes in th e whiteboard “Nose” and gives
the meaning from “Nose” is “Hidung”. The teacher makes an example of each word in a sentence and
translates it. Example: I can smell with my nose = saya dapat mencium
menggunakan hidung saya. After that, the teacher ask the students to ask what they are not
understood.
As student’s evaluation, the teacher give them exercises about “My Face” to know the students’ understanding
From those models of teaching vocabulary using picture and teaching vocabulary using translation method which has been describe
above, it is considered that one of those two teaching methods is better than another. Therefore, the writer is interested in holding an experiment
using those two teaching methods to find the differences.
F. Thinking Framework
Vocabulary is one of the items that have to be mastered by the students in learning English, because no one can speak English if they have
limited vocabulary and without a proportional amount of vocabulary anyone will get trouble in her reading, listening, speaking, and writing.
To help the students could be easier what the teacher present and easy to memorize the new vocabulary. Teachers should provide interesting
materials, teaching aids and create positive classroom environment. Using pictures is one of the visual aids that are useful in teaching vocabulary. Using
