TEACHING VOCABULARY THROUGH WORD CHAIN TO IMPROVE STUDENTS VOCABULARY AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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The principle of word chain technique as follows : the first, actually the students knows meaning of a word. The second, in teaching vocabulary is intentional in nature, the next is the students should select the words that do not fit into list and giving reason for their choices. It means the words that student use or choose can easier to learn or understand and of course the words the students use should general or familiar for them. And the last, the important point is correct the meaning of word and the students are divided into several groups to facilitate discussion.Teaching vocabulary by using technique has advantages likes : firsly, the teacher increasing the students’ repertoire of vocabulary rapidly because the instruction is intentional in nature, secondly, increasing their knowledge of synonymy and lexical range. Thus, improving their understanding of the nuances of meaning among synonimous words. Therefore, they know the suitable context for a certain word. And the last advantages of this technique is stimulating students to discus their answers because there are more than one possible answers.Using this technique in teaching vocabulary, the teacher is not only able to convey or share a lesson to student but the teacher can also to improve the ability of teachers in teaching vocabulary in the classroom and creativity to develop material by teaching technique that have been compiled or developed to the students and the students also more interested and have desire to study hard and can easily to understand the lesson are given.

Key Words: Ability, and teaching vocabulary,.