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meaning of vocabulary, how to pronounce the vocabulary, and how to write the vocabulary.
3 Questionnaire
After giving pre-test, the researcher distributed questionnaires to the students. Questionnaire is used to prove the general assumptions about the
teaching learning process in SD Negeri Kentingan No. 79 Surakarta, especially in English lesson.
Based on the analyzing of the questionnaire result, the researcher concluded that the students had many problems in learning English. Based on the
result of the questionnaire, the researcher listed some problems, those are: 1. Students had difficulties in understanding the vocabulary.
2. Students often felt bored and they made a lot of noise when they studied vocabulary.
3. The teacher rarely used interactive media and fun activities to study vocabulary.
b. Planning
Before the action was conducted, everything related to the action that would be implemented was prepared. A pre test and a post test were prepared to
know the students’ vocabulary mastery before and after the action. The tests are multiple choice types. Besides that, lesson plans of cycle 1 were made. The
teaching materials were taken from Students Evaluation Work Book LKS and Active and Interactive English for the Fifth Grade of Elementary School. The
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topic of cycle 1 was “Hobbies”. There are 2 meeting in this cycle. The meetings were conducted once a week. One lesson plan was made for each meeting.
c. Action
The first cycle consisted of two meetings and one test. Following are the schedule of first cycle implementation.
Table 4. 3 The Schedule of First Cycle
Meeting Date
Teacher Observer
Material
I 13-08-2010
Titik Mr. Bibit
Vocabulary of verbs hobbies
II 20-08-2010
Titik Mr. Bibit
Vocabulary of nouns hobbies
Post test 1 27-08-2010
Titik Mr. Bibit
Vocabulary of verbs and nouns about
hobbies
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The implementation of teaching vocabulary through graphic organizers was conducted by the researcher.
1 The first meeting 09.00 – 10.10
The first meeting was conducted Friday, 6 August 2010. The topic was “Hobbies”. After sticking pictures of some hobbies and doing routines, the teacher
asked some questions dealing with the topic about hobbies. For example: “What is your hobby?”, “Do you like reading?” etc. After that, some of the students are
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asked to write hisher hobby on the whiteboard. From this activity, the teacher and the students drew a conclusion that everybody has own hobbies.
The teacher asked the students to make groups of 4. After that, she asked them to prepare their dictionary. At first, the teacher gave the explanation about
how to do the task and gave one example. Then they should do task 1 and 2 about vocabulary verb the topic was still hobbies to know about some kinds of hobbies
by knowing the meaning of the words and how to pronounce the words in the right way. While the students did their work, the teacher walked around the class
to check their work and gave guidance to help. From this activity, the students knew about some kinds of hobbies and they could pronounce the words well.
After the students had finished, the teacher asked the representation of the groups to write the answers on the whiteboard. Because the whiteboard was not so
large, there were only 2 groups that could write their answers on the whiteboard. After they had finished, the teacher and the students evaluated their work.
If there were incorrect answers, the teacher and the other students helped them to answer the correct one. Then, the teacher drilled the vocabulary to the students.
She corrected students’ pronunciation whenever they made a mistake. The task 3 the teacher asked students to summarize about kinds of hobbies
that they had learned before and wrote them on star diagram. From this activity, the students could be helped to automatically understand the kind of hobbies
because the information organized well on star diagram. She closed the lesson by summarizing the lesson and gave the students homework task 4.
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2 The second meeting 09.00-10.20
The second meeting was conducted on. The topic was still “Hobbies”. For the first activity, the teacher asked the students do the task 1 to rearrange letters
into words vocabulary noun about hobbies in group. The students were allowed to consult with the dictionary in solving the task 1. The teacher and students
discussed together. The students were asked to follow after the teacher in pronouncing the words. After that, they were asked to do task 2 individually.
There were pictures about the equipments which were used for doing the activity of hobbies. After, the students had finished doing each exercise; they discussed
the answers together with the teacher. Then, she taught them how to pronounce the vocabulary.
The last activity, the teacher used spider web. First, she divided the students into 4 groups. Every group took one lottery to get 1 picture about hobby.
Every group looked for the words which had relation with the pictures’ hobbies on the spider web. The teacher counted the words found, the group found more
words than others was the winner. Then, the teacher pointed the winner and gave reward.
d. Observation
