THE TEACHING OF VOCABULARY AT GRADE VIII E SMP LABORATORIUM STATE UNIVERSITY OF MALANG

ABSTRAK Bothmonamona, Lidia.2014. The Teaching of Vocabulary at Grade VIII E Sekolah Menengah Pertama(SMP)Laboratorium State University of Malang.Thesis.English Department, Faculty of Letters, State University of Malang. Advisor: Aulia Apriana. S.S., M.Pd. Key words : teaching vocabulary, vocabulary class Vocabulary learningisan important and indispensable part of any language learning process. Itisessentialto learn vocabulary in order to support the mastery of English skills. Without knowing English vocabulary,the students can not speak or write in English. Studies and the researcher’s observation show that many of English learners at juniorhigh school level often face problems in vocabulary mastery.The most common obstacles are the limited number of words mastered and the difficulty to memorize the meaning of the words. Therefore, it is necessary for the teacher to apply certain method or technique to solve those problems and make students interested to learn English. Conversation class in Sekolah Menengah Pertama (SMP)Laboratorium of State University of Malang is used to improve students’ abilities in mastering vocabulary. The conversation class in the school has its own time allotment and is separated from regular English classes. It is conducted once a week for 40 (forty) minutes. All students must attend the class. The English teacher who is responsible for this vocabulary class is the same as the one who is teaching the English classes. This research aims at describing the teaching techniques, instructional materials, media, and students’ activities in the conversation class of grade VIII E at the school. The setting of the study is the school. The subjects of the study are the English teacher and students of grade VIII E. This research is qualitative. It was conducted at SekolahMenengahPertama (SMP) LaboratoriumState University of Malanggrade VIII E. The data of the research was the teaching techniques, material, media, and students’ activities conducted in the conversation class in grade VIIIEat the school. To get the data, the researcher conducted documentation, observation, and teacher interview. The data collection started from March, 15, 2014 until April 19, 2014. After that, the researcher used coding category to analyze the data. The findings of the study are the teaching techniques, materials, media, and classroom activities in grade VIII E at the school the techniques are “question answer”, “memorizing words”, “listen and do”, and “listen and repeat”. The instructional materials are texts and reading exercises. In addition, the instructional media used are whiteboard and works sheets. And the last, the classroom activities are translating and asking questions. Based on the findings, the researcher can conclude that the materials that suit the ability ofstudents as well as diverse teaching techniquesand classroom activities make the students interested in joining conversation class