English Teachers’ Strategies On Improving Students Vocabulary Mastery In SMPN 1 Matesih

Vocabulary mastery is the ability of students to recognize, understand, and use words contained in a language appropriately. Teacher strategy is the teacher's effort to vary teaching methods and create a pleasant teaching atmosphere in the classroom so that students can be involved and active in participating in learning actively instead of passively. The objectives of this study are (1) to find out the problems or obstacles faced by students in learning English, (2) to explore the strategies used by teachers to improve students' vocabulary mastery, and (3) to find out how these strategies can be used to help students achieve learning objectives. The method used was descriptive qualitativ. Data collection techniques include observation, interview, and test documents. The results of this study revealed that the 3 strategies were used by teacher, namely: vocabulary memorization deposit, imitating teacher reading, and reading the meaning of difficult words in the dictionary. Based on that results of this study, the pedagogical implications of these findings are that strategies to improve students' vocabulary are very important in English learning because language skills are highly dependent on vocabulary mastery, and the right strategy used by the teacher in the learning process will make students more active and independent. In addition to making students active and independent, the right strategy used by the teacher can improve students' vocabulary mastery and also improve students' scores