Teacher’s Strategies in Teaching English Vocabulary to Seventh Grade Students of Junior High School

The aims of this research is to investigate what are the strategies that the teacher
used and to investigate the teacher’s reasons for using the strategies in teaching
English vocabulary to seventh grade students. This study used a qualitative
descriptive method with observation sheet and interview sheet as the research
instruments. The data collection was carried out by observed the teaching and
learning process in the classroom and by conducted interview with the teacher.
The findings of this study indicate that the teacher used more than one strategy in
teaching English vocabulary, namely presentation strategies that included verbal
strategies such as translation (16), definition (1), and exemplification (2); practice
strategies that included semantic maps (7) and classroom test (6); and strategies
for training such as guessing from context (2), keeping vocabulary notes (2), and
using a dictionary (3). In addition, it was also found that the teacher’s reasons
used the strategies were because determined by the learning content and the value
of the teacher's teaching strategies for students. Therefore, it can be concluded that
the strategies used by the teacher in teaching vocabulary can help students in
knowing, recognizing, and acquiring various vocabularies related to the material
being taught, namely vocabularies about adjectives and nouns in descriptive texts.