THE STRATEGIES USED BY ENGLISH TEACHER TO TEACH VOCABULARY AT GENTA ENGLISH COURSE PARE-KEDIRI

This study was aimed to find out the used of strategies used by English teacher to teach vocabulary. for those who are learning English, it is essential to learn about vocabulary mastery in order they can use it to communicate and to express their ideas, opinions, thoughts by using words, sentences, paragraphs through written form without having face to face with other people directly. The design of this research in qualitative descriptive. This research was conducted in Genta English course. The students were 10 students. It consist of 9 female and 1 male. To know the result of the student activity, the researcher used observation checklist, field note and interview. Teacher strategies in teaching vocabulary is the ways or steps that help learners to learning vocabulary by acting one of the strategies as steps formula, so that strategy become a facility which increasing learners understanding in learning vocabulary. It means use the strategies is good in teaching vocabulary. Keyword: English teacher’s strategies, teaching vocabulary INTRODUCTION The student not only can study English at school, but also they learn English in non-formal education. The purpose of non-formal education is to complete, to change, and to add the student’s knowledge that they ever or never get from formal education. Moreover, some people who want to get job and best education in the future actually take non-formal education to increase their English ability. Non-formal education is any organized and systematic activity, outside the school system, conducted independently or the important part of the larger activity that is intentionally made to serve the specific student to get the goal of their study. In this era non-formal education that can help the students to get the different teaching and learning process from formal education that they get at the school. There are four skills that should be mastered by students in learning English. They are speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Besides the four English skills, to support the mastery of the four language skills the students should have well understanding of English component such as vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar. Vocabulary as one of English component is very important to learn. Before the students master the four skills they have to know 13 some vocabularies to support them in learning English. Richard (2005:5) says that vocabulary is core component of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Vocabulary is very important to be learnt by the students who want to master a language.