A STUDY ON 8 GRADE STUDENTS' DIFFICULTIES IN LEARNING VOCABULARY AT SMP NEGERI 2 NGLEGOK

The purpose of this research was to know students’ difficulties in learning vocabulary of the eighth grade students. This research was conducted to inspect the students’ difficulties in learning vocabulary. The participants of this research were eight graders at SMP N 2 Nglegok Blitar. For conducting the data, the researcher used document analysis and interview as the research instruments. This current research used qualitative design to obtain information cohesive to students' difficulties in learning vocabulary. In this research to collect data 3 students are interviewed as resource participants and there are 30 students whose work results were taken to analyze the location of students’ difficulties in learning vocabulary. After the data collection process, the documents in the form of student assignments given by the teacher was applied as the main instrument. The second instrument was interview. All the data were analyzed descriptively. The research results indicated that the students had many difficulties in learning vocabulary in terms of pronunciation, spelling, length and complexity and parts of speech. The possible causes of difficulties faced by eight graders at SMP N 2 Nglegok are having low motivation in learning English and learning English in the classroom only