STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN STUDYING VOCABULARY: A CASE STUDY AT SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MI AL ITTIHADUL ISLAMIYAH AMPENAN IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019

SALEH, FAHIMA (2018) STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN STUDYING VOCABULARY: A CASE STUDY AT SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MI AL ITTIHADUL ISLAMIYAH AMPENAN IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019. S1 thesis, Universitas Mataram.

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Abstract

The objectives of the present study are to find out what kind of difficulties in studying vocabulary and factors that contribute the difficulties faced by the students. This study employed a descriptive quantitative research implementing characteristics of a case study. The subject for gaining the data, the researcher used vocabulary test and questionnaire. All the data were analyzed descriptively. The findings showed that the students still faced the problems or difficulties in vocabulary learning. Kinds of difficulties faced by the students were; (1) almost all of students have difficulties in range connotation and idiomaticity, it is proven 89.3% of students could not identify the connotation form in the sentence; (2) 87.2% of students found difficulties in choosing the appropriate meaning of the word; (3) students have difficulties in pronouncing the word it showed 85.1% of students could not choose the right word to complete the sentence; (4) the different grammatical form of a word known as inflections was one of causes of students difficulties in studying vocabulary, 68.0% of students were failed; (5) In the spelling part, 57.4% of students unable to choose appropriate spelling of the word, and the last (6) 40.4% of students have difficulties in length and complexity. There were some factors that causes students’ difficulties in learning vocabulary (1) the common problems was students’ motivation in learning English vocabulary (2) the next is students have problem in identifying past tense form (3) students got problems when they write English vocabulary (4) students not used the dictionary that was available in library (5) students got problems to expressing English vocabulary (6) students did not understand with the teacher material and (7) problems that causing difficulties is they did not like studying English.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Keywords (Kata Kunci): difficulty, vocabulary, descriptive quantitative
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
Depositing User: Wiwin Kartikawati
Date Deposited: 16 Nov 2018 01:30
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2018 01:30
URI: http://eprints.unram.ac.id/id/eprint/10307

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