Deaf students are students who have little or no speech depending on the severity of the hearing loss, meanwhile hard of hearing students are students who may have speech impairments as a result of their inability to hear their own voices clearly. By applying the qualitative approach with the descriptive method, the study depicts the strategy used by the teacher in teaching vocabulary to seven students of the eleventh grade at SLB Dharma Wanita-Bogor, which was conducted from May 15 to December, 15th 2022. The data were collected through observation, documentation, and interview. The observations were done from August to September 2022, meanwhile, the interview was on 15th October 2022. The participants of the study were two targeted English teachers at SLB Dharma Wanita-Bogor who fulfilled the criteria that they have a background in teaching English, have been teaching English for more than 5 years, are qualified, and are experienced in teaching deaf students. From the observations, the documentation, and the interview, it is revealed that both teachers had carried out the steps written in their lesson plans completely, and the strategy used by both teachers are repetition, lip reading, gesture, body movement, through-the-air language comprehension, and the use of media. In lip reading and through the air communication, they pronounced each word carefully and slowly and asked each student to repeat what they said, used the media/pictures which are available in the class, and asked the students to look up the dictionary to find the words. If the students still find difficulties in saying the words, both of the teachers used sign language, through air conversation or body movement. They confess that the students so far can follow the lesson well, and their final grades are considered enough until good.
Vocabulary is one of the essential language components in learning the English language. Therefore, the learners must learn vocabulary to be able to master four skills, which are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Teaching vocabulary to young leaners is considered difficult. As a result, the teacher can use one of the media that can be applied in teaching vocabulary to young learners using an online crossword puzzle game. The aim of this research is to find out the effect whether teaching vocabulary using online crossword puzzle games have a significant effect on vocabulary knowledge for young learners. The research is conducted to the fourth grade students of SDIT-At takwin Sukabumi. Random sampling technique is used to get sample from the population and there are two classes that become the sample in this research. There are 25 students from class IV B and 25 students from class IV C. In conducting the research, quasi-experimental method and one group pre-test and post-test design are used. The data was taken from pre-test and post-test by giving vocabulary test. The data are calculated by using t-test formula. Based on the data calculation, the result of tcalculated is 5.0813 while the level significant of ttable 1.677 and the level significant of 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) of 48. Therefore, it can be concluded the t-test value is higher that the t-table value (5.0813 1.677). It means that alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted, which is the result shows that the students in learning vocabulary with the experimental group has significant effect after giving the treatments using online crossword puzzle game. The students can memorize the word easier because they understand the meaning of the word by engaging in language learning experiences through visual aids.
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