ENRICHING STUDENT’S VOCABULARY THROUGH WORD MAPPING STRATEGY (A Case Study at a Vocational High School in Ciamis)

Abstract

The research reported in this paper centered to explore the enriching of word mapping strategy in vocabulary learning and to analyze students and teacher perception while learning the vocabulary using the word mapping strategy. This qualitative case study research was conducted in one of the vocational school in Ciamis. This research involved a tenth-grader consisted of eighteen students and English teacher in academic year 2020/2021. The data were collected using classroom observation, semi-structured interviews, and a close-ended questionnaire. The researcher coded, transcribed, and summarized the data with triangulation data analysis technique. The research finding showed that the teacher utilized 4 step required the implement word mapping strategy in the teaching and learning process namely develop the background knowledge, discuss the material, discuss the strategy. The use of word mapping strategy made the students more enthusiastic and improved their focus to remember the vocabulary. Additionally, it improves their motivation to remember every new words in vocabulary. Moreover, the teacher felt easier to convey the learning materials and classroom atmosphere. Students also gave a positive atmosphere when the teacher used word mapping strategy in teaching vocabulary in the degree of comparison material. However both of the students and the teacher stated that longer treatment with this strategy was needed by the students to improve their vocabulary skills. Therefore, the future researcher could be using this strategy with some modifications and adaptations to improve another skills in English learning