Abstract
This community service is a free English tutorial for a group of primary schools’ students aged ten years old residing in Duren Sawit, East Jakarta and its surroundings. The program is part of a bigger tutorial program called Bimbingan Belajar Mita (Bimbel Mita) conducted by a non-profit organization that was initiated by the Maria Clarist congregation sisters around eight years ago. The participants of the six-month program were ten students. The method of the community service was teaching the basic English vocabulary through pictorial short English texts and vocabulary games. The former technique was used for the first half of the semester and the latter for the second half of the period. During the tutorial, the students have acquired a number of the targeted English nouns related to objects in the house, garden, animals, colors, professions, fruits, vegetables; verbs related to daily activities at home and adjectives related to descriptions of objects and human beings and some adverbs. In learning the English vocabulary, they show more enthusiasm for games rather than the pictorial reading texts.
Highlights
It has been widely accepted that the mastery of vocabulary is the key to learning the English language (Smith & Murphy, 2015)
I suspected that most Indonesian students, including those studying in state schools, do not read English story books
After knowing that the students had never read English storybooks prior to the English tutoring lessons, I changed my plan into learning vocabulary through reading pictorial story books and playing games
Summary
It has been widely accepted that the mastery of vocabulary is the key to learning the English language (Smith & Murphy, 2015). Vocabulary is acquired through daily interactions with the speakers of the language, for instance, the family members, the peers, the teachers and/or the neighbors Such situation is hardly present in the context of English learning in Indonesia where children commonly learn English at schools. English is learnt mostly in formal contexts through the English teacher’s explanation in the classroom and English textbooks It is very challenging for young Indonesian children to acquire a lot of vocabularies in order to be able to use English fluently, especially when reading (English texts) is not part of the children’s routines lately media such as television, internet and games have been considered to be the sources from which today’s generation acquire the English words (Puimège & Peters, 2019).
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