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Still, Nation in Cameron, 2001 suggests that an explanation should be followed by a check of understanding, using different technique. So, having
explained car through defining context, and their understanding can be check using a picture. If it has not been understood, a further explanation can be given.
4. Teaching Vocabulary and Its Purpose for Students of MI Manafiul Ulum
Kudus
Brown 2001: 15 says that teaching is showing or helping someone to learn how to do something, giving instruction, guiding in the study of something,
providing with knowledge, causing to know or to understand. Hornby 1987: 86 states that teaching is giving instruction of knowledge, skill, lesson, living and
others. Teaching English to school-age children therefore is not merely a matter of
setting them loose on a plethora of authentic language tasks in the classroom. To successfully teach children a language requires specific skills and intuitions that
differ from those appropriate for adult teaching Brown, 2001: 87. From definition above it can be concluded that teaching English vocabulary
means facilitating students in learning vocabulary with the appropriate method based on their age in order to enhance them with sufficient vocabulary.
Vocabulary has been taught in every level study from elementary to advance. For Elementary School, teaching vocabulary is intended to make the
students master the vocabularies given which are based on the curriculum. As foreign language, English sometimes make them get upset because of their limited
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vocabularies. Therefore, teaching vocabulary for Elementary students is a must in order to give them a basic knowledge.
In general, teachers of Elementary School do simple way in teaching vocabulary, giving the meaning of new words immediately to be memorized.
Usually they use a textbook with some new vocabularies and automatically translate them for students. Even, they just give students some words in a piece of
paper and ask them to memorize. In a fact, those are not appropriate way to teach vocabulary. Students will be passive and actually it is hard for them to memorize
words without any context. The English teacher in MI NU Manafiul Ulum Kudus seems do the same
way as other teachers of Elementary School in common. The consequence, the students, especially the sixth students of MI NU Manafiul Ulum Kudus, is poor in
vocabulary mastery. They have told the truth that they had not been taught enough vocabulary. On the other hand, too much time is spent for structure and reading
comprehension. Actually intensity in teaching vocabulary is not a big deal. The most important is the use of appropriate technique in teaching vocabulary so that
they have sufficient words as a starting point to learn English. Here, an English teacher plays an important role because shehe is the most
influential person in the classroom. Shehe has to create a desirable classroom climate to plan a variety of learning activities so that the students will enjoy the
learning and easily absorb the material. Shehe has to be able to apply various techniques in teaching English
because the students at Elementary School like to learn something by doing. In
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this case, using appropriate and interesting instructional media and new techniques of teaching vocabulary is required.
Teaching vocabulary is really important as it is the foundation for students to know more about English vocabulary. When the students do not have enough
words in their minds, it will be hard to go forward. They probably feel strange with the pronunciation and spelling at once. Therefore, teacher should give them
an understanding about the purpose of learning English vocabulary. It is obvious that the purpose of teaching English vocabulary is introducing
students with words that are used in high frequency. It begins from the simple words that students are interested in. Besides to attract their attention and interest,
it will make the process of learning English vocabulary run smoothly. The students are willing to memorize words that are often used in language class.
That’s why teacher must notice about learning vocabulary in and out of class Virginia, 1983: 8.
As Elementary school students are young learners, teaching English vocabulary becomes a need. The aim is certainly to enhance the students in order
to be able to learn English holistically in the next level. They should be enhanced with not only simple vocabulary but also the complex one. Traditionally, teachers
give only simple words such as pen, table, door, etc. In a fact, such new words should not be presented in isolation. The teacher should provide the context. Of
course, students will have more chance in understanding the new words and it will stimulate their brain to think over about the new words they have known.
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Many researchers claimed that learners should initially be taught at least two thousand high frequency words. Later it seems to be the goal for second language
learners. Meara in Celce-Murcia 2001 states that students who start to acquire language should learn large vocabularies because of two reasons:
a. The language has a small number of words that occur many times in most of
material we see and a large number of words that occur only once o twice. b.
Most learners expect to learn as much as possible a number of vocabularies, and it would be a mistake not to fulfill on the expectations.
West in Celce-Murcia 2001 states that the famous list of high frequency words is the General Service List of English Words. It is claimed that knowing
these words will enable someone to access about 80 percent of the words in any written text and thus stimulates motivation since the words acquired can be seen
by learners to have a demonstrably quick return. However, it is based on old word counts and recently is being revised.
Dealing with that case, it should be taken into account that learners have different need relates to vocabulary because of context. Learners in Indonesia
perhaps need to know more about vocabularies related to rainy season than spring. In linked with curriculum of English as a foreign language that is taught in
Elementary School, nowadays it is widely accepted that vocabulary teaching should be a part of the syllabus and taught in a well planned. The material for the
sixth year students are cleaning the classroom, daily routine, parts of the body, objects in the classroom, etc. It can bee seen that students at that age still learn
about things in their surrounding.
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5. Teaching Process of English Vocabulary
