The Use of Theme-Based Approach in Teaching Young Learners’ Vocabulary Of English Club at Nur Hidayah Islamic Elementary School

Abstract

The use of appropriate technique in order to achieve the goal of teaching and learning English takes the important role in English language teaching. Young learner as the basic of education is one of objects in education. It needs an appropriate approach to teaching English for young learners. One of appropriate approaches is theme-based approach. It is an approach of organizing teaching around themes or topics making it possible to integrate instruction across core areas such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This study aims to find out the use of theme-based approach to teach English vocabulary for young learners in English club of Nur Hidayah Elementary Islamic School Surakarta. Besides, it also to investigate students' responses toward theme based approach applied in teaching English vocabulary. Data collected from a survey conducted on 24 students of English Club in Nur Hidayah Islamic Elementary School. The technique of collecting the data used observation, interview, and documentary. The data summarized on the usefulness of theme-based approach in teaching English vocabulary. The result of the study showed that the use of theme-based approach is important used by the teacher to get student understanding in learning vocabulary. Furthermore, the teacher should provide various activities maintained student's interest during the lesson.