AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ LINGUISTIC PROBLEMS IN LEARNING VOCABULARY AT SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 1 MALANG
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- This study aims to analyze students’ linguistic problems in learning vocabulary in SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Malang. The focuses of this study were linguistic problems faced by XII grade students, the causes, and the solutions of the problems. This study used descriptive qualitative to draw the data of the topic. The subjects of this study were the XII grade students who consisted of 11 students. To collect data the researcher used observation and interview as the instruments. The observation was non participant observation. Meanwhile, the interview method was semi-structure interview. The result of the study showed that the linguistic problems faced by students were pronunciation, spelling, and grammatical problems. They were caused by the difference and the similarity of words, the similarity of sounds, the word forms and the word classes. Moreover, the students did several ways to solve their linguistic problems such as reading books to solve the grammatical problems. They also used media to solve their pronunciation and spelling problems. Eventually, the students also should actively improve their learning, especially in vocabulary.