By Amik Amri Rahmadhi, M.Pd
As a second or foreign language learner, one important thing that should be known, mastered, and comprehended besides the four language skills such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing is structure or grammar and vocabulary. This short article discusses only about the way how we, as English teacher, help our students to enrich their vocabulary. It discusses the way how they enrich their vocabulary through card or sheet. ESL Teacher prepares a card or sheet contains lists of vocabulary that must be memorized and used in daily life context.
There are thousands of ways that have been undertaken by the linguists, teachers, academicians, and foreign language learners themselves to find the right formula, concept, or way so that the second or foreign language learners can enrich their vocabulary. As many ways, sometimes they fit the formula and sometimes they feel uncomfortable with another formula. It means that it depends on them whether they want to use this formula or another or the best way how they enrich their vocabulary well. As we know that vocabulary has the important role in mastering second or foreign language especially English. On this occasion, the writer shares how we make our students master and comprehend vocabulary they need. He gives students a piece of card, sheet or paper contains lists of vocabulary that must be mastered. It is named as "Vocabulary Builder Card". You may download its example here: Vocabulary Card Builder.
For detail, below the procedure both for ESL teacher or students are given for giving detail information.
Procedures for teacher:
1. Tell your students about this program.
1. Tell your students about this program.
2. Decide the vocabulary that must be mastered by students in this academic year both odd and even semester.
3. Ask your students to meet and prove that they have recognized and mastered them well by delivering the vocabulary, its function, and an example of sentence that contains the word discussed.
4. Sign up your signature to give them motivation as they succeed with the vocabulary.
5. Make an agreement with the student when and where they can meet teacher to discuss it.
Procedures for students:
1. Recognize the word.
2. Find out its function in a sentence. It can be a pronoun (P), adjective (adj), verb (V), preposition (prep), adverb (adv), noun (N) etc.
3. Find out its meaning in dictionary.
4. Make or write a simple sentence using the word.
5. Meet your teacher to ensure that you have understood and mastered them well
6. Ask your teacher to sign up your card/ vocabulary sheet.
As the end of this paper, the writer suggests that vocabulary has the important role for all second language learners in the world not only English but also all languages in the world to master foreign language. Moreover, this way discussed is one of the thousands ways in mastering vocabulary. So, you are free to implement the best one.
