Teacher's Strategies in Teaching English Vocabulary forEleventh Grade Students
This research describes about the teacher's strategies in teaching English vocabulary for eleventh grade at MAN 5 Barito Kuala. There were three problems in this research: (1) What are the teacher's strategies in teaching vocabulary at the eleventh grade students of MAN 5 Barito Kuala? (2) Why does the teacher apply the strategy in teaching English vocabulary vocabulary at the eleventh grade students of MAN 5 Barito Kuala? and (3) What are the teacher's problems in teaching English vocabulary at the eleventh grade students of MAN 5 Barito Kuala? The purposes of this research: (1) To describe the teacher's strategies in teaching english vocabulary at the eleventh grade students of MAN 5 Barito Kuala, (2) To find the teacher's reason in applying the strategy in teaching English vocabulary at the eleventh grade students of MAN 5 Barito Kuala, and (3) To describe the teacher's problems in teaching English vocabulary at the eleventh grade students of MAN 5 Barito Kuala. The researcher used descriptive qualitative method. In this case, descriptive qualitative method was used to describe English teacher's strategies in teaching English vocabulary for eleventh grade at MAN 5 Barito Kuala. The subject of this research was the teacher's of English. The researcher used observation, documentation, and Interview for technique of collecting data. The research findings were presented and discussed to answer of the research problem. The researcher found the strategies used by the teacher were multiple meaning, game and memorization. It was found that the students had a good responses to the teacher strategies in teaching vocabularies. They could enjoy the process in teaching and learning process. By using multiple meaning, game and memorization strategies the students could remember the new words easier.