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TEACHERS’ TECHNIQUES IN TEACHING VOCABULARY FOR THE FIRST
GRADERS OF LABORATORIUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SALATIGA

Yunita Natalia Dwi Wibowowati

Abstract
Learning vocabulary is important in communication. Without learning vocabulary and
understand the words we cannot express the ideas and communicate freely. Since teaching
children is not easy and need special teacher, the teachers must be creative in teaching
English vocabulary. In this case, vocabulary becomes the important things to learn for the
basic of communication. Based on the reason above, this study was conducted to find out the
techniques of Laboratorium Elementary English teachers in teaching English vocabulary. The
subjects for this study were two teachers and their students at Laboratorium Elementary
School in Salatiga. Some classroom observations were conducted during teaching vocabulary
and to obtain more data, I interviewed the teachers. The result of this study showed that there
were seven teaching techniques used by the English teachers in the classroom. The purpose
of those techniques is to teach vocabulary especially to unify the concepts of materials which
are being learned by the students. Another finding revealed that almost all the English
teachers at Laboratorium Elementary School assumed that teaching vocabulary using
different techniques in a fun way was easier for the students to learn new words. Since the
students were still young and have different characteristics, the teachers decided to use many

kinds of techniques to make the students understand and try to use the new words to
communicate with others. The students were really interested and easy to learn the new
words through many kinds of techniques which given by the teachers.
Keywords: Teaching techniques, Vocabulary teaching, and Teaching young learners.