The Feasibility of Vocabulary Exercise Instruction in Hello English Application

Listiani, Erna (2020) The Feasibility of Vocabulary Exercise Instruction in Hello English Application. Undergraduate (S1) thesis, IAIN Ponorogo.

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listiani, erna. 2020. The Feasibility of Vocabulary Exercise Instruction in Hello English Application. Thesis, English Education Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training, State Institute for Islamic Studies of Ponorogo. Advisor Winantu K. S. A., S.S., M.hum.
Key Words: Vocabulary Instruction, Comprehensive Approach, and Hello English Application
Vocabulary knowledge is important because it includes all words that people must know to access their background knowledge, express their ideas and communicate effectively, and learn about new concepts. Vocabulary knowledge is not only essential for success in reading and other skills in English but also in academic success. To become proficient in English skills, the English foreign language learners have challenge in English vocabulary instruction. The researcher wants to investigate an impact of vocabulary instruction by using theory that interpret e-language learning application. Therefore the researcher decided to use Graves’ Comprehensive Approach as the main theory in this research. Graves’ Comprehensive Approach has four components namely Frequent, Varied, and Extensive Language Experiences, Teaching Individual Words, Teaching Word-Learning Strategies, and Fostering Word Consciousness.
The objectives of this research were to find out the kinds of vocabulary found in Hello English application, the kinds of vocabulary exercise instructions in Hello English application and the feasibility of vocabulary exercise instructions in Hello English application based on the four components of Graves’ Comprehensive Approach. Because of the large amount of the lessons, the researcher need to limit the study. The researcher took only one phase of the first basic level which have totally 25 lessons. The researcher took one phase because the similarity of questions on the basic level of Hello English.

This research applied qualitative approach and used content analysis design to analyze the data. The researcher used documentation to collect the data. The procedure of data analysis were designing, unitizing, sampling, coding, drawing inferences, and validating data based on the four components of Graves’ Comprehensive Approach.
The kinds of vocabulary found in Hello English were word classes, word families, and word formations. There were eight kinds of vocabulary exercise instructions found in the first phase of Hello English namely Multiple Choice Translation (MCTL), Fill in the Blank (FIB), Translation (TL), Sentence Shuffle (SS), Picture Flash Card Translation (PFCTL) and Multiple Choice Transcription (MCTC), Word Shuffle (WS) and Pronunciation (PC). The researcher also found that Hello English application is feasible to vocabulary instruction since its application fulfill the three of four components of Graves’s Comprehensive Approach namely Frequent, Varied, and Extensive Language Experience, Teaching Individual Words. Meanwhile Word Consciousness except Teaching Word-Learning Strategies because nonexistence of using context to infer the meanings of unknown words and using the dictionary.
It can be concluded that Hello English is feasible based on Graves’ Comprehensive Approach. Because of that the learners should learn and develop their vocabulary not only at school and home but also by e-language learning application to support their learning such as Hello English. Furthermore, the researcher also suggested to the further researcher to continue conducting the research about vocabulary instruction by observe another e-language learning application or develop their own application that fulfill comprehensive theory from another theorist.

Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate (S1))
Thesis Supervisor: Winantu Kurnianingtyas
Subjects: 13 EDUCATION > 1399 Other Education > 139999 Education not elsewhere classified
Divisions: Fakultas Ilmu Tarbiyah dan Keguruan > Jurusan Tadris Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Miss Perpustakaan IAIN Ponorogo
Date Deposited: 04 Jun 2020 06:19
Last Modified: 04 Jun 2020 06:19
URI: http://etheses.iainponorogo.ac.id/id/eprint/9753

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