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STUDENTS’ VIEW ON RICH VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION
FOR READING COMPREHENSION: A STUDY AT
BANYUBIRU JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1

THESIS
Partial in Submitted Fullfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan

Godlas Hadi Saputra Harianja
112010150

ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
2014
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STUDENTS’ VIEW ON RICH VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION FOR
READING COMPREHENSION: A STUDY AT BANYUBIRU JUNIOR
HIGH SCHOOL 1

Godlas Hadi Saputra Harianja

Abstract
As one of academic skills, reading is considered important in education world. For
students, mastering reading skills is beneficial to achieve academic goal as it allows
them to receive knowledge to achieve that goal. However, in the process of
comprehending texts, students sometime are faced with problems of unfamiliar words,
especially when they read texts in foreign language. Later, these problems result in
students’ difficulty to achieve comprehension of text content. To deal with this
problem, Nation (2008) proposed a teaching instruction called Rich Vocabulary
Instruction that can be used by teachers to assist student in achieving comprehension
in reading. This study sets a purpose to seek what aspect of rich vocabulary instruction
are taught in reading class and how the students view the advantages and
disadvantages of the aspects toward their reading comprehension. To answer these
questions a number of 54 students at Banyubiru Junior High School 1 in Central Java
were involved as participants. Moreover, the data was collected by using instruments
like class observation, questionnaire, and interview. The result of this study shows 4
aspects of rich vocabulary instruction (spoken, concept-referent, association, grammar
function) that help students’ comprehension in reading. However, some discussions of

these aspects were found difficult to understand due to some weakness in students’
ability and teaching techniques.
Key words: Reading comprehension, rich vocabulary instruction, students’
view