Practical and Training Strategies for Vocabulary Learning

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The second is pratical strategies as proposed by Nation (1990) and Gairns and Redman (1986). It involves classroom review of the previously introduced vocabulary repeatedly as well as homework (i.e. classroom test, games, semantic maps, written repetition). It is affirmed that repetition is meaningful in doing activities at the classroom (i.e. matching the words with pictures and completing the sentences) to help learners to memorize vocabulary as long as possible (Thornbury, 2004:24).

The third strategy is training strategies as proposed by Cross (1991) and Allen (1983). The purpose of strategy training is to teach students strategies for independent vocabulary learning (i.e. guessing meaning from context, word building, dictionary use and …show more content…

Use Strategic Vocabulary in the Class
Class may be the main place for students to hear or using English. Walsh (2006) cited in the thesis (Hartati, 2014: 20) divides into four ways in which classroom teaching strategies; managerial, materials, skills, and systemand Clasroom context. Each one has a different teaching purposes and may include different functions.

1) Managerial mode refers to the way teachers manage their classrooms, moving between activities or use the marker when it would begin closing the subject matter and using English, then repeat using the Indonesian such as Ok, let's change the roles, we'r finished.
2) Material mode refers to a conversation that occurs when teachers and students do activities in the material. This includes to stimulate response from the students, examine, explain the answers and provide good feedback like that's right, excellent, good.
3) Skills and system modes that skill to teach teachers to get feedback from students, explain or correct the data. (I mean, now, first of all)
4) Classroom context refers to type of language learners using student's personal experience or feelings of students called "freer practice activities. Here the role of the teacher is to listen and support the interaction, which is mostly student experience as a casual …show more content…

The Steps Teaching Vocabulary

The steps teaching vocabulary according to Celce cited in (Hartati, 2014:21), namely:
a. giving the context, namely the teacher gives the meaning of the word with one or several techniques.
b. Repetition the meaning of words by asking questions about the wordswithout context until they are able to reciting them pretty well.
c. The use of the word in the context of a situation a variety. For example the teacher gave the same response in a variety of situations in which the meaning of the response is a variety too.
d. Giving an example sentence or model. Teacher gives sentences examples remind students about how to use vocabulary in that sentence in the proper context.
Teachers must be take advantage of a variety of teaching techniques and vocabulary can make the students begin to understand a word. So it will be achieved the goal of the learning process effective and efficient. In this study, a teacher using cooperative learning model and the techniques used are techniques two stay and two stray (TS-TS), think pair share (TPS), etc.

9. Using Pictures in Teaching

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