Language games as a means of teaching vocabulary interestingly to the third year students of junior high school - Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya Repository

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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

1. 1 Background of the Study
Many students who have been learning English for
number

of

years still have

difficulties

in

a

expressing

themselves fluently. Sometimes, these students have

quite

a reasonable passive command of the language. Somehow they
are

often

question
that

when called on. No doubt one of the

most

students
cannot

at lose about what to say or how to

classes are too big to study a

answer
reasons

language.

in one class are too many eo that

each

a
is
The

student

have enough turns, while in learning a language

a

'great deal of practice is necessary.
Based on the writer's experience during her PPL
junior

high school, most of the students

English

appropriately.

couldn't

They didn't know how

to

their ideas, how to pronounce the English words
and

how to use the vocabulary to make

the

in

speak
express

correctly

communication

run smoothly.

Therefore,
to

beginners at

teaching English as a foreign
junior high schools is very

language

interesting

inspite of its difficulties, because the teacher obviously
has

to

help

students in such a way

that

they

master

simple words to express simple ideas in their daily needs.

In

spite of all the help that a teacher

may

give

students, the sheer number of words to be learnt in a
language
The

is a burden for most learners