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A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF VOCABULARY MASTERY AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF MENTAL RETARDATION STUDENTS OF SMPLB YKAB BOYOLALI IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/2016
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Institusion
IAIN Surakarta
Author
Dhanu, Rahmat
Fitriyah, Nurul Hidayati, M.Pd
Subject
370 Education 
Datestamp
2017-08-11 03:07:11 
Abstract :
Keywords :Teaching, Vocabulary, Descriptive study, Mental Retardation, The objectives of this research are (1) To describe the teaching strategy used by English teacher in teaching vocabulary at the Eighth grade of mental retardation students of SMPLBYKABBoyolali in the academic year 2015/2016. (2) To describe the problem in the teaching Vocabulary Mastery at the Eighth grade of mental retardation students of SMPLBYKABBoyolali in the academic year 2015/2016. This research was conducted on February, 26th 2016 until May 4th, 2016for the eighth grade of Mental Retardation Students at SMPLB YKAB Boyolali in the Academic Year 2015/2016. The design of the research was descriptive qualitative research. The subjects of this research were the students of 8C1 classconsisted offormediumMental Retardation class consisted of 6 studentsand one English teacher. The researcher chose Mental Retardation class of 8C1because based on the interview with the English teacher, this class has good knowledge and more active than other class.The data was collected from the observations and interviews. This research usedmethodology triangulation. The result showed that (1)the strategy used by the teacher in teaching vocabulary the mild mental retardation students are context and memorization. The teacher used text and picture as media in context strategy, while in memorization, the teacher gave some noun vocabularies that have to be memorized by the students. (2) There were two problems which appear in teaching vocabulary mastery, namely; no upgrading for general teacher (non PendidikanLuarBiasa teacher) in the SMPLB YKAB Boyolali. It made him difficult to handle students. Students’ participation during teaching learning process was less. They often did not ready attending English class. The teacher should give more motivation to improve the students’ participation. 
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