In this study, the writer chooses semantic mapping technique to improve students’ vocabulary. While indirect ways can be done by means of reading text and summarizing it. Direct ways such as: showing pictures, using flash cards, and semantic mapping. To improve students’ vocabulary, teacher has to use appropriate technique, both directly and indirectly. If learner has enough vocabulary, they will able to understand the utterance which they listens, they will able to speak fluently, and they can understand the content of the text easily.īased on the result of interview with the English teacher at Sekolah Menengah Pertama N 15 Kendari, the writer got that the English ability of students is still low because of the lack of vocabulary.
By having enough vocabulary, the ability to communicate and to convey our social need can be established. Vocabulary is supposed as the important element in learning English to support the four English skills itself. It is not only cover four language skills areas (listening, reading, speaking, and writing) but also others aspects of language such as vocabulary. Status of English as universe language has made people in the world to mastering English.Ĭonsidering the fact above, Indonesian government put English as one of compulsory subject that should be mastered by the students. Therefore, mastering several foreign languages is considerably necessary, especially English. Language has important role in human life, since it is a tool which human use to interact with other people.