Letterland is a child-friendly, multi-modal system for teaching children to read, write, and spell. The secret of its worldwide success lies in its pictogram
characters and their ability to make learning fun and entertain.
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Therefore, it is easier if the sounds of the letters of the alphabet are taught before the words. By combining phonics teaching with story telling, letterland
provides the right way to teach letter shape and sound recognition, and to establish correct letter formation.
Finally, in teaching English at pre-school in Indonesia properly it will prepare the next youth generation to reach the language competence that can
reflect their own or other people’s experiences, expressing some kind of feeling and ideas, and more important is to understand some kind of language meaning.
This competence would help the learners recognize themselves, their culture, and even the other nations; but the important thing is they can participate in a
community that uses English as a social intercourse language.
B. Scope and Formulation of Study
In this “skripsi”, the writer would like to describe the letterland technique, in teaching English which is appropriate to the learners’ situation and condition
on the playgroup. The scope in this study is dealing with the teaching techniques that have been received by the learners when they are learning English in the
classroom.
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To get it more clearly in this study, the formulation of the study case is answering to the question of “Is using Letterland Technique in Teaching
Vocabulary to playgroup to the learners at Tumble Tots Pondok Indah, Jakarta, important.
C. Objective of Study
Based on the background above, the writer wants to know, whether letterland technique is a right technique:
1. To observe the use of letterland in teaching vocabulary. 2. To find out the student’s achievement progress in learning English vocabulary
by using letterland technique.
D. Method of Study
The writer carried out a field research by working as an English teacher on playgroup at Tumble Tots, Pondok Indah, Jakarta. Through the observation the
writer has known the achievement that students reach. The analysis of this field research result hopefully, that letterland
technique can help the student’s understand to some English vocabulary.
E. Significance of Study
By writing this “skripsi”, the writer would like to hope that the result of this study can give some benefit, mainly:
1. Using letterland technique in the term of teaching and learning process of foreign language is easier to the students to remember or memorized
vocabulary. 2. Knowing the effectiveness’ of approaches and method that applicant through
the teaching techniques appropriate for the students on learning vocabulary. 3. Using letterland can bring outside the student’s aspiration and creativities.
F. Organization of Study
This “skripsi” consists of four chapters. The first chapter is introduction which describes background of study,
scope and formulation of study, objective of study, method of the study,
significance of the study, and organization of the study.
The second chapter is theoretical framework which discusses general concept of vocabulary, meaning of vocabulary, kinds of vocabulary, ways of
presenting new vocabulary, techniques in teaching vocabulary, definition letterland techniques, function of letterland pictogram, strategies of letterland,
step of teaching vocabulary. The third chapter consists of research methodology which describes the
purpose of the study, place and time, method of study, technique of collecting data, description of data, and analysis of data.
The fourth chapter talks about conclusions and suggestions.
CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
