CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION Reinforcing Students' Vocabulary Through Scrabble Game

found in many contexts in reading texts; and in conversation in speaking and listening. Recognizing roots and affixes can increase vocabulary effectively.” 4 Mastering vocabulary is not easy, yet other aspects of the language are considered as sound, and structure. Vocabulary is one of the most important elements in a language. To speak the language well needs to master it. No matter how well you learn grammar, how successfully the sound of the foreign language just cannot happen in any meaningful way. 5 Vocabulary is important in learning a foreign language. It is one element that links the four skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing all together. In order to communicate well in a foreign language, students should acquire a sufficient number of words and know how to use them accurately. 6 We can improve our vocabulary such as by reading books, watching TV, or learning through internet such chatting among the country and film video. Increasing learning process the teachers are hoped to develop their students‟ ability to communicate to others by giving them practice pattern, which contains the vocabulary items for every day situation. Students need something fun and easy to access the vocabulary quickly when is required for use. By using a suitable method, his subject matter will be more interesting and teaching learning process can be more effective and efficient, therefore the purpose can be achieved. Teacher is an important factor for the students‟ progress, to help the students master the material of language skills. The teacher is hoped to make the suitable methods of teaching or techniques. 4 AM. Zainuri, vocabulary I, Jakarta: UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, 2003, p. 29 5 Norbert Schmit and Michael Mc. Chartey, Vocabulary: Description, Acquisition and Pedagogy, London: Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 140 6 Anonymous, Kurikulum 2004 SMA; Pedoman Khusus Silabus Berbasis Kompetensi Jakarta: PT. Binatama Raya, p. 2 In teaching vocabulary at first grade of SMA Kartika X-1, the teacher teaches the students traditionally. The teacher asks the students to read a text in the textbook together. Then, the teacher asks the students to look up the words in dictionary to check the meaning of the word and to ask them to memorize that vocabulary. And sometimes, the teacher asks the students about that vocabulary and they do not remember it. This teaching strategy cannot help the students to reinforce their vocabulary. This strategy influences the teaching of vocabulary which causes many problems. The teacher also has difficulties to teach the materials in a large class. The main problem is the way to manage it. During the teaching hours, the teacher makes the students pay attention to the materials given to them and also to their friends‟ performances in front of the class. It needs hard work for getting students attention without giving them an interesting activity for more than one hour. Based on the problems above, the writer tries to give a solution for the teacher to implement an English teaching strategy which can motivate and give more opportunities for the learner to contribute in English teaching process that is playing scrabble game. This strategy is designed to create students‟ interests to learn with pleasant. In playing scrabble game activity, the game played with two to four players with the players using their vocabulary to create words. Scrabble allows players to use any word in the English language except for words that are capitalized which need hyphens, abbreviations, prefixes or suffixes. Using scrabble game in teaching vocabulary will encourage the students to reinforce their vocabulary that they have stored in their brains. These types of activities are extremely effective in the foreign language classroom. Based on the problems above, it encourages us to think how to manage classroom activities to be an active class so that the students can participate actively in the teaching and learning process and then we can achieve the objective of English