TEACHING VOCABULARY USING ANALOGY THROUGH COOPERATIVE LEARNING TO THE STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLL

Abstract

Analogy is one of the ways to teach vocabulary in Junior High School. By using Analogy, teachers can help students developing their higher-level thinking and language skills. Analogy, or the likening of one thing to another based upon similarity, is often given on standardized tests. English teachers can also use them to help students learning to connect ideas and use vocabulary words

This paper has two objectives. They are to describe how to teach English vocabulary using Analogy to Junior High School students and to find out the advantages and disadvantages of teaching vocabulary using Analogy. In writing this paper, the writer uses library research in which the writer collects many sources from books and internet to support the discussion.

The result shows that way to teach vocabulary using Analogy through cooperative learning is divided by three activities. They are pre teaching, whilst teaching and post teaching. In pre teaching, the teacher takes several minutes to govern the students to seat on the chairs that have been rearranged before. After everything was under controlled, then the teacher asks students to make groups and checks their readiness to start the lesson. In whilst teaching, the first the teacher informs them what they are going to do, the second the teacher explains the material about vocabulary using Analogy. The next step is to determine the relationship between the first two words in the analogy. Based on that relationship, students can choose the answer for the second half of the analogy. In post teaching, the teacher gives a test to each group to check to their understanding about the vocabularies gained from the activity. The teacher asks each group to answer the question.

There are several advantages. They are  it makes the vocabulary learning more enjoyable and interesting, it makes the students to be enthusiasm in learning process and makes the class more active and alive, it can attract the students’ curiosity in learning new vocabulary, and also it can make them easier to learn new words, students can get the chance to show their ability. They are motivating and draw learners’ attention, they provide a sense of the context of the language and give a specific reference point or stimulus, analogy is interesting for the students, so it can support the students to learn vocabulary, and finally, the teacher can get relaxed situation in teaching process, and also the students can do their tasks in relax and enjoyable situation.