The Study
Context of the study
This research was conducted at ten Junior High Schools. They are located at different
location all around Salatiga, Central Java. The writer chose Junior High School level because
after elementary level it becomes increasingly difficult for the teachers to select the
vocabulary that will be equally useful to all his students due to their students learning
backgrounds. Therefore the writer was curious to find out the techniques that English
teachers at junior high school level used to teach vocabulary to their students.
Participants
The participants of this study were thirty one English teachers who taught junior high
school. Teachers who became my participants had different English background. In this study
the writer chose all English teachers who taught from the first grade to third grade of junior
high school to get richer data about the way they taught English vocabulary to their students.
Instrument of data collection
This research used questionnaire in collecting the data. The questionnaire was divided
into two parts. This first part consisted of thirteen close-ended questions about technique that
English teachers used when they taught vocabulary to their students. The participants
answered this close-ended question by circling the number one until four which represent
how often they used a technique. Circling number one means never, two means seldom, three
means sometimes and for means often. The second part consisted of one open-ended question
about problems that they faced when they taught vocabulary to their students.
First, the researcher developed the questionnaire which would be distributed to junior
high school English teachers. After the questionnaire was well-developed, the researcher
went to the administration office of Faculty of Language and Literature SWCU to ask about
letter of permission for distributing the questionnaire. After the researcher got the letter of
permission, the researcher went to junior high schools and asked permission from the
principals to distribute the questionnaire to their English teachers. After the researcher got
permission from the principals, the researcher either met the English teachers who would be
the subjects or asked the principals to give the questionnaire to the English teachers. Later on
the researcher collected the questionnaire which had been completed by the English teachers.
Data analysis procedure
The writer analyzed the data using descriptive quantitative data analysis. After
collecting all the questionnaires from the schools, the writer read the data and classified the
