AN ANALYSIS OF VOCABULARY TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR STUDENTS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION AT SMPLB EKA MANDIRI BATU|
| Main Author: | Nikma, Hanna Novariana Azizah |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2016
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.umm.ac.id/32685/1/jiptummpp-gdl-hannanovar-42979-1-pendahul-n.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/32685/2/jiptummpp-gdl-hannanovar-42979-2-chapteri.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/32685/ |
Daftar Isi:
- Keyword : teaching strategies, mental retardation, teachingÂ’s problem. Students with mental retardation require a special educational to develop their unique and different capabilities. The teacher teaches the basic language teaching for students with mental retardation. Teaching vocabulary is an important and indispensable part of any basic language teaching and learning process. The English teacher applies two strategies in teaching vocabulary for student with mental retardation such as discovery strategies and consolidation strategies. This study applied descriptive qualitative design and used structured interview and observation to collect the data. The object of this study was the English teacher who taught in class 7C at SMPLB Eka Mandiri Batu. After collecting data from the subject of the study, the researcher continued to analyze the data through some steps: 1) Matching the result data from interview and observation, 2) classifying the vocabulary strategies and the problem in teaching vocabulary for students with mental retardation based on the research problems, 3) drawing conclusion based on the result of the data by using descriptive text. The result of the study indicated the vocabulary teaching strategies covered both the discovery strategies and consolidation strategies. From discovery strategies, the teacher used guessing the meaning from the context by using dictionary included determination strategies. Meanwhile, the consolidation strategies used by teacher were using storyline and pictures included in memorization strategies. There were many problems occurred in teaching vocabulary for students with mental retardation such as: the students made wrong pronunciation, less confident and less focus. Moreover, the teacherÂ’s problem in the implementation dictionary were studentsÂ’ emotional in discovering the dictionary, the teacher could not manage the class well and studentsÂ’ wrong writing of the vocabularies. And the last, teacherÂ’s problems in implementing pictures were studentsÂ’ memorization of vocabularies was difficult and needed longer time to memorize the vocabulary.