Many studies have come to a strong conclusion that pre-school education is important in supporting children Keywords: pre-school education, vocabulary, pictures, concept mapPre-school education is vital. According to some experts, it is even the most important education because several studies have shown that past experience in pre-school education gives very large impact on many aspects of a child's development. This early education institution has first developed the potential of affective and cognitive abilities at an early age (Bibi & Ali, 2012: 153). Bibi and Ali's research result (2012:157) suggests that elementary school children who receive pre-school education tend to have academic achievement and extra -curricular better than those who did not receive pre-school education before.Problem in the field is the learning materials given to the kindergarten children often do not correspond to the stages of child development. Many kindergartens give kindergarten children lessons of reading, writing, arithmetic and English which are burdensome or difficult for early childhood. Kindergarten is supposed to be a park where children play, socialize and explore turned into early childhood school elementary school that teaches a variety of academic skills. Handling erroneous since the early education will not help children enter higher education level, but it can have the opposite effect. Children are burdened with English subject matter which is abstract or too heavy that they will feel that these lessons are a difficult subject to master.Most of the teachers of Early Childhood Education (ECD) that teach English do not have the linguistic knowledge and ability to use the English language as well as adequate pedagogical knowledge. The results of the initial survey in early childhood institutions of

Many studies have come to a strong conclusion that pre-school education is important in supporting children to be ready in their future academic and social development. The writer would like to find out if there is an increase in the mastery of the English vocabulary of the pre-school children through visualization with pictures and concept mapping. A combination of qualitative and quantitative study with pre-test and posttest has been conducted to find out if there is an increase in the mastery of the English vocabulary of kindergarten children of Chatya Manis after given materials using the method. 40 children were chosen to be the samples of the study. The study reveals that there is a significant difference between the average value of the test before and after learning model concept mapping activities.

Many studies have come to a strong conclusion that pre-school education is important in supporting children to be ready in their future academic and social development. The writer would like to find out if there is an increase in the mastery of the English vocabulary of the pre-school children through visualization with pictures and concept mapping. A combination of qualitative and quantitative study with pre-test and posttest has been conducted to find out if there is an increase in the mastery of the English vocabulary of kindergarten children of Chatya Manis after given materials using the method. 40 children were chosen to be the samples of the study. The study reveals that there is a significant difference between the average value of the test before and after learning model concept mapping activities.