PTK TK 02 - THE INFLUENCE OF VOCABULARY TEACHING USING GAMES ON THE VOCABULARY MASTERY OF THE AISYIAH KINDERGARTEN
THE
INFLUENCE OF VOCABULARY TEACHING USING GAMES ON THE VOCABULARY MASTERY OF THE AISYIAH
KINDERGARTEN
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background of the
Study
As a
foreign language in Indonesia, English is seriously learned by many people to
have a good prospect to be the community of international world. It can be seen
that English is taught from elementary school, up to the higher education (SLTP,
SMU, Universities). Now days in line with the Indonesia government's plan to
the nine-year basic education, English teaching at elementary school has been
possible based on the 1994 curriculum of elementary school.
Considering
the needs of mastering English, it is very important to start learning English
as early as possible. Now days, parents who have realized about the importance
of English, want their children start learning English earlier. Many parents in
Indonesia send their young children of preschool's age (3-6 years old) for
many English oriented pre-schools or to the kindergartens. Krasnegor (in Badib,
1991: 351) states that infants can distinguish many phonetic contrast of a
speech at a very yo.ing age. It means that the earlier one starts to learn
English, the better the result he/she will achieve.
But, teaching
English to pre-school children is not easy and it needs patience. The process
of teaching children or young learner is different from the process of teaching
adults. Clark and Clark (in Fauziati, 2002: 171) state that the language used
talk to young children is about “here and now”. Adults talk about the object
for children interest in: they name them, describe their properties, and talk
about relation between objects. To make sure young children understand what
adults say, adults alter the way they say what they say to children. They do
this in three ways: they slow down, they use short simple sentences, and they
repeat them frequently. These ways of talking to children should be seriously
considered in teaching English to very young learners.
To reach a
good development in teaching learning process, teachers should create various
teaching techniques to increase the motivation of children. The variety of teaching
techniques will help very young learners feel amusing in learning situation.
One of the techniques to teach the children is using games.
Games
should be applied in the process of learning a anguage. Games are appropriate
to be played by everybody who learns a language. Games and game-like activities
can be a useful medium for teaching foreign language to children. Instead of
having a fun the children also learn a new language. David (2003: 49) states
that games play a central role in a child-centered lesson and make it possible
for children to fully immerse themselves in learning.
In
learning English, children should realize what they do when they receive the
language assignments. They must be led to understand assignments that are
connected to their habit of using their own language to enrich their
vocabulary. Mujiono (1993: 83) states:
Vocabulary in English as a foreign language
is taught at school for the purpose of providing the students language skills.
They are listening, reading, speaking, and writing. Some general statements say
that the techniques of teaching reading comprehension and others (Listening,
Speaking, Reading, and Writing) are vouched on vocabulary.
The
statement above shows that vocabulary is one of the elements of a language.
As the
number of vocabulary items, which are the students to master expect indicate
that there is a difference between those needed for production skill in foreign
language especially speaking and writing. And those needed for recognition
skill, particularly reading and listening. On this point, Lado (in Ernawati,
2002: 8) mentions as following:
At present it is possible to guest that a
speaking vocabulary of 2000 world like that of general service list of English
words, is an adequate minimum number for the purpose of basic communication for
reading. However, a vocabulary for writing and listening should better be got
at 3000 to 4000 than 2000.
It is
realized that in the production level, the students can select any phrase
within their range of vocabulary that they do not know. In production level,
however, they are forced to know all the words the: read or hear in order to
communicate smoothly.
Teaching
vocabulary should use effective techniques to teach the material from the book
that they are using. They will know the strength and weakness of their
material, and will be able to improve their teaching.
Based on
the explained above the writer is interested to conduct a research about “The
Influence of Vocabulary Teaching using Games on the Vocabulary Mastery of the AISYIAH
Kindergarten.”
B.
Review of
Previous Study
In this
study, the writer summarizes the relevant previous researcher to prove the
originality of' this study. They are Siti Ernawati (2002) and Dain Nurfika
(2002).
The first
researcher is Siti Ernawati (2002) studies about “Teaching Vocabulary Using
Pictures at the First Year Students of MTS N Walen Simo Boyolali”. She focuses
the study on the effectiveness of pictures as a means to teach vocabulary.
The second
researcher is Dain Nurfika (2002) in f is study entitled “Teaching Speaking
Using Games and Role-play to the Students of Conversation Class at SMU Al-Islam
3 Surakarta.” The aims of his study are to find the right procedures in
teaching speaking using games and Role-play and to know the teaching learning
process in the classrooms, especially the implementation of Teaching Speaking
Using Games and Role-play to the Students of Conversation Class at SMU Al-Islam
3 Surakarta.
From those
literatures writer review above the writer uses the same media but different in
an instrument. The writer research is about The Influence of Vocabulary
Teaching with Games on the Vocabulary Mastery of the AISYIAH Kindergarten.
C.
Problem
Statement
Based
on the background of the study the writes formulates the problems as follows:
1. How is the
process of teaching vocabulary using games to the AISYIAH Kindergarten?
2. What is
the result of teaching vocabulary using games to the AISYIAH Kindergarten?
D.
Limitation
of the Study
In
Kindergarten, there are many interesting aspects to study, but the writer only
focuses on the effectiveness of games as a means to teach vocabulary.
E.
Objective
of the Study
Based on
the research problem, the purposes of the study are:
1.
To describe the process of teaching vocabulary
using games in AISYIAH Kindergarten.
2.
To describe the result of teaching vocabulary using
games in AISYIAH Kindergarten.
F.
Benefit of
the Study
The writer
expects that the research paper has some benefits in theoretical and practical.
- The
theoretical advantages:
a.
The result of the research paper can be used as an
input in English teaching learning process especially in teaching vocabulary.
b.
The result of the research can be used as the
reference for those who want to conduct a research in English teaching learning
process.
- The practical
advantage:
The English teachers can use the result of
the research when they teach the pupils of kindergarten in improving
vocabulary.
G.
Paper
Organization
The study
will be organized as follows:
Chapter I
is Introduction. It includes the background of tht study, review of previous
study, problem statement, limitation of the study, objective of the study,
benefit of the study, and research paper organization. Chapter II is Underlying
Theory. It discusses the notion of vocabulary, kinds of vocabulary, the characteristics
of the young children, general nature of teaching vocabulary, the general
concept of games, and action hypothesis. Chapter III is Research Method. This
covers type of research, the instruments for gathering the data, subject of the
study, object of the study, and the techniques of analyzing data. Chapter IV is
analysis and discussion. Chapter V consists of conclusion and suggestion.
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