Teacher’s strategies in teaching vocabulary at SD Negeri 138 Sabajior

The problem of this research was taken based on fact in using strategies in teaching vocabulary. The researcher identified many strategies in teaching vocabulary but there were teachers’ did not use various strategies in teaching vocabulary, because of that there were many students were low in vocabulary. In this research, the reseacher wanted to anlyze the teacher’s strategies in teaching vocabulary, and teachers’ problem in teaching vocabulary. The methodology of this research was conducted by qualitative approach and descriptive method. The source of the data for this research was English teacher. The instrument for collecting data the reseacher used observation and interview. The reseacher analyzed the data by: managing, reading, describing, classfying, and interpreting data, for checking the trustworthiness of the data reseacher used the application of observation and triangulation. 1.Teachers’ Strategies in Teaching Vocabulary to Young Learners at SD Negeri 138 Sabajior were:a.Using Games;1) Animal Twister Games, 2) Whisper Games, 3) Guess the Word Games b.Flashcard. 2.Teachers’ problems in teaching vocabulary to young learners at SD Negeri 138 Sabajior were:students did not follow the discussion, students confused when he instruction about animal twister, students made a joke and moved from one group to another group, students did not serious until learning process out of control.the students did not discuss together about the answer key, students did mistake when written the answer Guess the Word Games in the blackboard, lack of media from the school, students lack of vocabular