The Use of Cue Card in Cooperative Learning for Teaching Vocabulary

Parmi Parmi

doi:10.15294/elt.v8i2.31778

Abstract

Vocabulary is the basic of English that is very important and difficult to master. Vocabulary will help students to master the four skills of language. Therefore, teacher have to make creative and interesting a way for teaching vocabulary.This study concern about how cue card and cooperative learning is used for teaching vocabulary. This study focused on theuse cue card as learning media and cooperative learning as learning method. The subject of this study was seven grade student of SMP N 41 Semarang. The aim of this study was to describe the implementation of cue card with cooperative learning in teaching vocabulary to the students in the classroom. This study was a qualitative case research. The observation, questionnaire, interview, and document analysis was used to collect the data. The questionnaire was given at the end of the study. The observation sheet used to monitor the students and teacher’s activities during the teaching learning process. The intrview was done at the end of the meeting.Based on the result, the researcher concluded that the use of cue card for teaching English vocabulary is interesting, effective, efficient, and arffordable. In addition, cooperative learning was helpfull to increase the student’s confidence.  Keywords: Cue Card, Cooperative Learning, English Vocabulary

Highlights

English as international language is very important to the society because English is used in several aspects such as education, social, culture etc
I used qualitative case study since the main purpose of this study is to explore the used of cue card in cooperative learning for teaching vocabulary
The research findings are purposed to answer the research question of the study that is how cue card in cooperative learning is used for teaching English vocabulary, in SMP N 41 Semarang

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Introduction

English as international language is very important to the society because English is used in several aspects such as education, social, culture etc. Indonesian curriculum has stated that English is one of the compulsory subjects that have to be taught in Junior and Senior High School. Base on Curriculum 2013 Junior High School student will get English at the first time because some of them do not get English in Elementary School. To be competent in English, the students should have a good skill especially those four skills. Without those four skills student will not be able to communicate and write. Memorizing is claimed as a bored and difficult activity for some Junior High School student. Based on those opinions, the teacher should be creative and active

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