Improving the Students’ ability to speak English using pictures through pair work.

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. Background

As internationally pronounced language, English occupies the first position in the word by
communication today. This position makes English most widely used all over the world in all
aspects of human life. English is a language used conveying our ideas to other persons. We can
communicate with other people in the world by the language. In our country, English plays an
important role in international communication and in the development of Education, Economic,
Science, and Technology.

One problem that usually find is that the students’ are capable of structure or reading, but have
the lack of speaking, although English have been thought in Indonesia as a compulsory subject
from junior school to senior high school and university. Therefore, we can state that speaking is
one of the improvements of their speaking skill. Studying English without practice speaking is
useless. (Fauziati, 2002:126)

Speaking is the process of building and sharing meaning through the use of verbal and non-
verbal symbols. Speaking is a crucial part of second language learning and teaching. However,
today’s world requires that the goal of teaching speaking should improve students’
communicative skills because students can express themselves and learn how to use a language.

Nowadays, many teacher agree that students should learn to speak the Second language by
interacting to others. For this case, students’ should master several speaking components such as:
comprehension, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and fluency. In brief, English teacher
should be creative in developing their teaching learning process to create good atmosphere,
improve the students speaking skill, give attention to the speaking components’, and make the
English lesson more exiting. For this reason, the English teacher of SMP Pesantren Sinergi
Mulya applies appropriate method and technique of teaching speaking. The method used by the
teacher is pair work method.

Here the researcher was applied a new method to improve students’ ability to speak English, the
method is pair work.

Pair work is one of the learning strategies which emphasized on the efficient and the
effectiveness in teaching and learning process. Besides that, students expect can motivate them
to construct the knowledge in their own understanding and to make connection between
knowledge and its application in their daily.

Based on the explanation above that the students still low or lack of speaking so the writer is
interested in investigating whether the use of pair work method is effective or not in improving
students’ speaking by carrying out the research under the title: “Improving the Students’ ability
to speak English using pictures through pair work/.

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THE EFFECT OF SUING PICTURE MEDIA ON STUDENTS VOCABULARY MASTERY

BY FOURTH GRADE OF SD NEGERI

THE EFFECT OF SUING PICTURE MEDIA ON STUDENTS VOCABULARY MASTERY

BY FOURTH GRADE OF SD NEGERI

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Research Background

Teaching English in our country has been developed extensively because English is an
international language in the world. Therefore, Indonesian government has brought it as a local
since at the elementary school. In teaching English vocabulary as an element or language is
considered as the most important factor in increasing the mastered if the students are still lacking
of vocabulary. Vocabulary is a part of language learning that need continuing growth and
development by both native and non native speakers long after grammar and pronunciation
elementary school until senior high Scholl. In language teaching preparation program in our
country, more and attention being given to improve some technique for teaching vocabulary.

Learning vocabulary as a foreign language seems easy but some students feel fear. The teacher
of English should find out solution by crating efficient and effective technique of teaching in
teaching English vocabulary, besides that, the teachers should establish condition which makes
teaching vocabulary possible. The learning will occur within reasonable period of time.
Vocabulary is when we speak and write; the term expressive vocabulary is used to refer to both
since these are the vocabularies we use to express ourselves. We “understand” vocabulary when
we listen to speech and when we read (Pikulski & Templeton 2004: 1).

Ferreira (2007) point out many authors have similar definitions about vocabulary. Vocabulary
can be defined as a powerful carrier of meaning and the knowledge of words and their
meanings. This means that without establishing a??????

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