Author (Penulis)

Lucky Zielda Afriska
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0111

Abstract

ABSTRACT Lucky Zielda Afriska : Vocabulary Learning Strategies Used By Eleventh Grade Students of SMAN 1 Grogol In Academic Year 2015/2016. Skripsi, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education English Department. University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri, 2016. Vocabulary is knowledge of words and word meaning. Vocabulary is important component in English which support other skills such as listening, speaking, reading and writing. In learning vocabulary students have to know the meaning and how to use in the context. It can help them in speaking. By having a lot of vocabulary students fell confident because they can communicate with other people fluently. In other hand if they have less vocabulary they fell difficulty in all of skills. Learning strategies are used by the students to improve their ability and competence in learning. Learning strategies also help students to understand the material easily. Learning strategies seem to be tricks learners to help them remember things better. But in this research, the writer only identified on strategies in learning vocabulary especially what kinds of vocabulary learning strategies are used in learning vocabulary by the students of SMAN 1 Grogol ? and what are the most frequent strategies used by the students of SMAN 1 Grogol? In this research the writer was conduct in SMAN 1 Grogol. There are eight classes in eleventh grade divided science and social classes. The writer just chosen two classes to be a sample to represent the research there are XI MIA-3 and XI IIS-3. XI MIA-3 represent science class and XI IIS-3 represent social class. The design of the research is descriptive quantitative. The writer used close-ended questionnaire to get the data. In close-ended questionnaire there are 10 questions in scale and their answer counted using total score and percentage form. The result of this research showed that there are five kinds of strategies that used by eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Grogol, there are determination strategy about guessing and using dictionary, Memory strategy about synonym and image meaning, Social strategy about practice group and speak with native speakers, Cognitive strategy about repetition and make a list, Metacognitive strategy about using picture and English media. The most frequent strategy used by students was using dictionary that can be found in determination strategy Average score of respondents’ answer in Determination Strategy with a value of 3.63. The second sequence is occupied by Memory Strategy with a value of 3.07. The next sequence with a mean 2.99 and 2.85 and 2.77 are occupied by Metacognitive Strategy, Cognitive Strategy, and Social Strategy By knowing the kinds of learning strategies, teachers can suggest to their students to use this strategy according to their ability in teaching learning process to make students more easily and quickly improve their vocabulary. Keyword: Vocabulary Learning Strategies.

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PUBLISHED

2016-08-16

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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