Abstract:Vocabulary plays pivotal role in foreign language learning. However, vocabulary teaching and vocabulary learning in TEFL seems to be neglected. The study was aimed to investigate how vocabulary teaching and learning are perceived by teacher and students, strategies to teach and learn the vocabulary, and also influences of students' vocabulary learning strategy on their vocabulary mastery. Accordingly, a mix method design was employed to one English teacher and 30 junior high school students to reveal the issues being investigated. The findings showed that both teacher and students have positive response on vocabulary teaching and learning. Concerning strategies, it was found that teacher mostly employed Fully-contextual strategy, meanwhile Determination and Metacognitive strategy were found as the most favored VLS chosen by students. The study also confirmed that there is a significant relationship between students' vocabulary learning strategy and their vocabulary mastery p<. 05). It is recommended for EFL teachers to give a bigger portion to vocabulary in the EFL teaching and to teach vocabulary using the combination of fully-contextual and de-contextual strategy. It is also suggested to introduce students to various kinds of vocabulary learning strategies. Keyword: vocabulary teaching, vocabulary learning, perception,Dewi Nur Asyiah, The Vocabulary Teaching and Vocabulary Learning....294. strategiesThe role of vocabulary in learning a foreign language is inevitable.Rich vocabulary will totally help students mastering English and its four major skills which cover listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This importance is proven by Tnanh Huyen & Thi Thu Nga (2003, in Rouhani & Purgharib 2013 who define vocabulary as a language element that links the four language skills including listening, speaking, reading, and writing in learning a foreign language. Further, Hornby (1995) defined vocabulary in three senses that cover a) the total number of the words which make up a language; b) all the words known to a person or used in a particular book, subject, etc; and c) a list of words with their meaning. The importance of vocabulary was also noted by Richards and Renandya (2002) believing that vocabulary plays crucial part in one's foreign language learning and language proficiency that can affect how well learners speak, listen, read and write.Brown, (2001( , cited in Utami, 2014, however, emphasizes the significance of vocabulary to communication by asserting that, in fact, survival level communication can take place quite intelligibly when people simply string words together-without applying grammatical rules at all. In this sense, vocabulary is regarded as one of essential factors that gives big influence to the people's communication. Thus, vocabulary should be ideally placed as important aspect of language learning that should be given much attention in the practice of TEFL so as to improve students' vocabulary mastery.Mastering vocabulary means that students have comprehensive knowledge about th...
Abstract:Vocabulary plays pivotal role in foreign language learning. However, vocabulary teaching and vocabulary learning in TEFL seems to be neglected. The study was aimed to investigate how vocabulary teaching and learning are perceived by teacher and students, strategies to teach and learn the vocabulary, and also influences of students' vocabulary learning strategy on their vocabulary mastery. Accordingly, a mix method design was employed to one English teacher and 30 junior high school students to reveal the issues being investigated. The findings showed that both teacher and students have positive response on vocabulary teaching and learning. Concerning strategies, it was found that teacher mostly employed Fully-contextual strategy, meanwhile Determination and Metacognitive strategy were found as the most favored VLS chosen by students. The study also confirmed that there is a significant relationship between students' vocabulary learning strategy and their vocabulary mastery p<. 05). It is recommended for EFL teachers to give a bigger portion to vocabulary in the EFL teaching and to teach vocabulary using the combination of fully-contextual and de-contextual strategy. It is also suggested to introduce students to various kinds of vocabulary learning strategies. Keyword: vocabulary teaching, vocabulary learning, perception,Dewi Nur Asyiah, The Vocabulary Teaching and Vocabulary Learning....294. strategiesThe role of vocabulary in learning a foreign language is inevitable.Rich vocabulary will totally help students mastering English and its four major skills which cover listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This importance is proven by Tnanh Huyen & Thi Thu Nga (2003, in Rouhani & Purgharib 2013 who define vocabulary as a language element that links the four language skills including listening, speaking, reading, and writing in learning a foreign language. Further, Hornby (1995) defined vocabulary in three senses that cover a) the total number of the words which make up a language; b) all the words known to a person or used in a particular book, subject, etc; and c) a list of words with their meaning. The importance of vocabulary was also noted by Richards and Renandya (2002) believing that vocabulary plays crucial part in one's foreign language learning and language proficiency that can affect how well learners speak, listen, read and write.Brown, (2001( , cited in Utami, 2014, however, emphasizes the significance of vocabulary to communication by asserting that, in fact, survival level communication can take place quite intelligibly when people simply string words together-without applying grammatical rules at all. In this sense, vocabulary is regarded as one of essential factors that gives big influence to the people's communication. Thus, vocabulary should be ideally placed as important aspect of language learning that should be given much attention in the practice of TEFL so as to improve students' vocabulary mastery.Mastering vocabulary means that students have comprehensive knowledge about th...
Abstract-This study was motivated by data revealing that decision making upon learning objectives were taken merely from curriculum and syllabus review, while students' preferences towards their needs in learning was neglected. Therefore, this study is aimed to find out students' needs in studying English as a foreign language. Questionnaire and semi standardized interview under qualitative approach were administered to 32 seventh graders and 2 English teachers. The findings came up that students' motive in learning English was mainly to travel abroad. Furthermore, they perceived that their listening and writing skills were lower than the other skills. They also found difficulties in learning due to the unpleasant facilitation. In addition, they preferred to learn English in group. This study is expected to give more preferences to teachers in deciding upon what skills should be emphasized and what learning styles and teaching methods will better be applied in teaching and learning.
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