{"title":"Teaching Vocabulary through Total Physical Response to Elementary Students","authors":"Deni Setiawan, Diani Nurhajati, S. Sulistyani","doi":"10.28926/jdr.v6i2.231","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Vocabulary is an important language component to be learned by English language learners. It should be taught since early age, especially to elementary students. Teaching English vocabulary, especially to elementary students, required effective and interesting method that suits with children’s learning characteristics. Children understand something through what they see, listen, and do. Therefore, English teachers should select the suitable method that is child-friendly. One of the ways to teach vocabulary is through Total Physical Response (TPR) method. This study was descriptive qualitative research to describe teaching material, teacher’s roles and teaching stage in the implementation of TPR to teach vocabulary to elementary students The subject of this study was the English teacher who taught the elementary students. The data were obtained from observation during the teaching and learning process, interview to the subjects and document analysis. The findings revealed that the teaching material used by the teacher was correlated and suited with the students’ daily life. The teacher has several roles, namely as a planner, a director, a model, and an assessor. The stages of teaching vocabulary were pre-teaching, whilst-teaching and post-teaching. The teacher used varied classroom activities such as singing, listen and do, game and dialog. In the end, the teacher conducted a test to measure the students’ comprehension.","PeriodicalId":47650,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Development Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"European Journal of Development Research","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.28926/jdr.v6i2.231","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"DEVELOPMENT STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Vocabulary is an important language component to be learned by English language learners. It should be taught since early age, especially to elementary students. Teaching English vocabulary, especially to elementary students, required effective and interesting method that suits with children’s learning characteristics. Children understand something through what they see, listen, and do. Therefore, English teachers should select the suitable method that is child-friendly. One of the ways to teach vocabulary is through Total Physical Response (TPR) method. This study was descriptive qualitative research to describe teaching material, teacher’s roles and teaching stage in the implementation of TPR to teach vocabulary to elementary students The subject of this study was the English teacher who taught the elementary students. The data were obtained from observation during the teaching and learning process, interview to the subjects and document analysis. The findings revealed that the teaching material used by the teacher was correlated and suited with the students’ daily life. The teacher has several roles, namely as a planner, a director, a model, and an assessor. The stages of teaching vocabulary were pre-teaching, whilst-teaching and post-teaching. The teacher used varied classroom activities such as singing, listen and do, game and dialog. In the end, the teacher conducted a test to measure the students’ comprehension.
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The European Journal of Development Research (EJDR) redefines and modernises what international development is, recognising the many schools of thought on what human development constitutes. It encourages debate between competing approaches to understanding global development and international social development. The journal is multidisciplinary and welcomes papers that are rooted in any mixture of fields including (but not limited to): development studies, international studies, social policy, sociology, politics, economics, anthropology, education, sustainability, business and management. EJDR explicitly links with development studies, being hosted by European Association of Development Institutes (EADI) and its various initiatives.
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