CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
English is one of international languages, which is used throughout the world and also English is used in many fields of life such as : in Politics, Economics, Social and Education. Therefore, English as a language in international communication is clearly needed by many learners to deliver thought and interact in a variety of situation.
English is one of the foreign languages for Indonesian students, that must be learnt in school since kindergarten level until University level. English is considered as a difficult subject for the Indonesian students, because English is completely different from Indonesian language being look at from the
system of structure, pronunciation and vocabulary. English teaching involves of four language skills, they are Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. In teaching and learning a language, there are four aspects that support four language skill above such as : grammar, vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation that are also taught in English teaching and learning process
Vocabulary is one of important aspects in teaching language, as stated by Edward (1997) Vocabulary is one of the important factor in all language teaching, student must continually be learning words as they learn structure and as they practice sound system.
Vocabulary is an important element in a language, besides pronunciation and grammatical rules. Teaching vocabulary is not easy for the teacher. According to Wright, (in Lynne Cameron, 2001:12), a teacher needs to remember that children may still be finding it difficult to use pronunciation correctly in their first language to control reference across a sequence of events and plot actions, and not to demand unreasonable skills in the foreign language. One implication is that when children learn a foreign language at the earliest stages they have not developed skills and learning abilities in the first language. The teacher needs to choose one of the techniques, which is the best for students. Good vocabulary teaching techniques would interest the learners.
Teaching vocabulary, a teacher must be able to make the students excited and enjoyable. This means, she should place a higher priority on having fun in her teaching, to do this she can use environment in the learning process. Tree Diagram is a easy way to ask students to deeply process words by organizing them and making their meanings visual and more concrete.
Based on the explanation above the writer will apply the tree diagram to improve the students’ vocabulary under the titile “Improving the Students’ Vocabulary by using Tree Diagram at the (school)”
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