Enriching students’ vocabulary acquisition to improve students’ achievement in English for VII grade students at SMP N 19 Surakarta

Oleh :
Evi Falenti - C9307006 - Fak. Sastra dan Seni Rupa

ABSTRACT This final project was written based on the writer’s job training as an English teacher in SMP Negeri 19 Surakarta which was done for one and a half month. The writer took three classes in VII D, VII E, and VII F as the subject to be observed. This final project discusses the effectiveness of enriching students’ vocabulary acquisition to improve students’ achievement in English for VII grade students in junior high school. The objectives of making this final project report are to describe the English teaching and learning process, to describe the English teaching process of enriching students’ vocabulary to improve students’ achievement in English, to describe the effectiveness or positive effects of enriching students’ vocabulary to improve students’ achievement in English, to describe the problems and their solution which give influence to the English teaching process to VII Grade students in SMP Negeri 19 Surakata. During the job training, the writer took some activities to collect the data by doing observation at the school and in the class, interviewing the English teacher to get more information about the school and the English teaching and learning process. The writer decided to enrich students’ vocabulary acquisition to improve students’ achievement in English. The writer divided the activities in the class into four stages, they were, Building Knowledge of the Field (BKOF), modeling, joint and independent construction of the text. The writer started the class with BKOF that consist of greeting, brainstorming, reviewing last material and introducing new material. Next, the writer delivered the whole of the material through modeling. The writer also gave the exercises to the students through joint and independent construction of the text. Here, the writer still guided the students in doing these exercises. At the last the writer evaluated the students’ works and discussed the mistakes they made. Besides, the writer use a variation teaching method to make the students interested in learning English. There were some problems that encountered the teaching and learning process such as, the difficulties of understanding and memorizing certain vocabulary, the difficulties of expressing their idea in English, the using of grammar, the influence of Indonesian language, laziness or unstable emotion and interest in learning English, but in the end of the job training the writer found that all the problems got improved. This was the fact, that enriching students’ vocabulary acquisition could be applied to improve students’ achievement in English.