TEACHING VOCABULARY FOR THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP A-ISLAM KARTASURA IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018

Maya Tyas Lutfiana Rosyidah. 2017. Teaching vocabulary for the second grade students of SMP Al-Islam Kartasura in Acaemic year 2017/2018. Thesis. English Letters Department, Islamic Education and Teacher Training Faculty. Advisors : Dr. H. Giyoto, M. Hum Key words : Teaching, vocabulary This research is to describe the teaching vocabulary conducted by the teacher for the second grade students of SMP Al-Islam Kartasura in Academic year 20172018. It is conducted to know how the teaching vocabulary implemented by the teacher such as the technique, the material and the media used by the teacher and also the problem are faced in the implementation of teaching-learning proccess. The researcher uses descriptive qualitative to analyze the data. The researcher collects the data by observing teaching-learning proccess, conducting the interview, and documenting. The data are from interview script, field note, syllabus, text book, and lesson plan. The methods of collecting data are conducting observation, interview, and analyzing document. The techniques of analyzing data are reduction the data, data analysis, presenting the data, and drawing conclussion. The subject of this research is the teacher of SMP Al-Islam Kartasura. The object of this research is the proccess of teaching vocabulary for second grade students of SMP Al-Islam Kartasura. Based on the class observation, interview, and document, the researcher draws conclussions about the implementation of the teaching vocabulary and the problems in implementing of teaching vocabulary. Based on the observation, interview, and documents, the researcher concluded that the techniques that used by the English teachers are; (1) Memorization; (2) Translation; (3) Playing games; (4) Word guessing based on context. The material that used by the teacher are: (1) Recount text; (2) Asking and giving help; (3) Asking, giving, offering, and rejecting; (4) Personal pronoun; (5) To ask for someones help; (6) Greeting. The media that used by the teacher are: (1) Video; (2) Picture; (3) LCD, (4) Student‟s English Book; (5) Realia/real thing; (6) Dictionary. Then, the problems faced by the teacher derived from three aspects, such as: (A) The problems faced from the teachers, such as: (1) Classroom management; (2) The teacher‟s difficulties in motivating to the students. (B) The problems faced from the students, such as: (1) The students lack of motivation and support; (2) The students lack confidence when learning English; (3) The students cannot speak English well; (4) Student‟s lack of vocabulary. (C) The problems faced from the school is lack of facilities of LCD