Diyan andriyani

 
Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary 
There are some strategies that can be 
used by the teachers for teaching 
vocabulary for Jnior High School students 
or young learners.Accoding to Linse 
(2005), there are some strategies or 
techniques which can be used for the 
teacher when teaching vocabularies for 
young learners. 
a) Emphasize both direct and in direct 
teaching 
It means that teachers teach 
vocabulary direct instructions refers 
to give the meaning, then teaching 
vocabulary with indirect instructions 
refers to the teachers let the students 
to look for the meaning of words by 
themselves. For example : Direct 
instructions, the teachers give a 
picture of fruit and the name of fruit 
in English. Indirect instructions, the 
teacher give the prefix of “ bi” , the 
teachers give a pic of bicycle and the 
students look for by themselves the 
meaning of picture by prefix “bi”. 
b) Teach vocabulary words before a new 
activity 
It means that the teachers 
give stimulate to children before 
learning or teachers give a word that 
has related with the topic before the 
learning process. The teacher also 
brings something that has related 
with the topic. 
For example : 
T : I have two things in my pocket,
who want to see it 
S : Me...Me
One students come to the teacher 
and see in teacher’s pocket. 
S : Oh candy and bread 
T : You want it? 
S : Of course.. 
Teacher give it to the students. 
The ilustrate above shown that the 
teachers give a new word in other activity, 
the teachers do not teach with permen is 
candy and roti is bread, but the teacher 
give a stimulate to the students to think 
the meaning of word by themselves with 
the activity. As we know that, the students 
at elementary school have more energic to 
remember the meaning of word which 
they are interested in. 
c) Teach how to use context clues 
appropietely 
In this activities, the teachers 
teach the vocabulary for the young 

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learners from the context. For example 
:The teachers give a clue like someone 
who sell a flower. Then, the students 
guess who is she?. After that, the 
students will guess that she/ he is a 
florist. 
d) Present Multiple exposures to new 
vocabularies item 
According to National institude of 
Child Health and Human Development 
in Linse (2005 :126) young learners 
make educational gains when they are 
exposed to vocabulary items repeatedly 
in rich contexts. It means that when 
teaching vocabulary for young learners, 
the teachers have to make the students 
remember the words every day. For 
example,if the teachers want to teach 
about things in the kitchen, so the 
teachers asked the students to bring a 
picture of something in the kitchen. 
Then, next week the teachers must 
make a game which use the picture 
things in the kitchen. 
e) Give opportunities for deep processing 
of vocabulary item 
This strategy give the students 
opportunity to use their cognitive skill 
to make a connection between new 
words and their prior knowledge. For 
example, when the teachers want to 
teach about something in a house, so 
the teachers let them to think or write 
that they know about the name of thing 
in their house. When the students find 
the difficulties, the teachers can help 
them in giving the name of something 
in English. 
f) Teach students to use dictionary 
Here, the teacher asked the 
students to open the dictionary to 
look for the meaning of the word. For 
example, 
the 
teacher 
gives 
a 
dictionary which has picture of the 
words and ask the students to look 
the picture. Then, ask them to read 
the name of picture in their 
dictionary.
g) Students keep vocabulary notebooks 
It means that, the teachers asked 
the students to make a picture about 
the vocabulary and remembered the 
vocabulary by themselves. 
Futhermore, 
there 
are 
some 
strategies in learning vocabulary from 
Murcia (2006) that can improve students’ 
vocabulary, they are : 
a. Semantic mapping 
Semantic mapping can help 
the teachers to teach their students in 
learning 
vocabulary, 
semanting 
mapping is an activity that helps 
students to bring the consciousness 
relationships among words. It means 
that, the teachers make a map which 
connected with the words and asked 
the students to learn it. For example, 
if the teachers want to teach the 
vocabulary about things in house, so 
the teachers make a mapping about 
things in house. 
b. Word pairs 
Word pairs also can help the 
teachers to teach the students in 
learning vocabulary. The teachers 
word pairs then ask the students to 
look for the suitable words which has 
the same meaning. 
c. Guessing meaning from the context 
It can help the teacher to teach 
their 
students 
in 
improving 
vocabulary, because it will make the 
students feel easy to get or catch the 
meaning from the context. 
d. Mnemonic Devices 
This strategy asks the students to 
memory the word and make link with 
their first language in order to make 
the students or young learner to 
remember the meaning of the word. 
e. Vocabulary Notebooks 
This strategies, teachers ask the 
students to make a note about all the 
words which they do not know the 
meaning and looking for the meaning. 
Vocabulary note will help the 
students, because they will ease to 
read their own word and remember 
what they write. 
In this research, the researcher used 
the strategies teaching vocabulary words 

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before new activity. She gave some words 
that have related with the topic before 
they are in learning process. The teacher 
also brings something that has related 
with the topic.