2009 A STUDY ON THE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AT THE SECOND GRADE OF MTSN NGEMPLAK BOYOLALI.pdfVIP

A STUDY ON THE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AT THE SECOND GRADE OF MTSN NGEMPLAK BOYOLALI RESEARCH PAPER Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for Getting Bachelor Degree of Education in English Department by: RETNO YULIASTUTI A 320040161 SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION MUHAMMADYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA 2009 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study Language as a means of communication seems to have played an important role in human life. Language and human being cannot be separated. Human life perspicuity can run well because they use language to communicate something one another. Through language, people gain a better insight into human relation. They use language to express their ideas and thought. Meanwhile, language itself can survive and develop because people use it and teach it to other people. Whoever, whenever, and wherever they are, the language always accompanies them. It is known that there are many languages in the world. Each community such as a nation, a village, a tribe, etc has its own language. People at least, master one language in order to be able to communicate with other in their community. It will be so hard and difficult to understand each other if they communicate using their own language. On the contrary, people who want to communicate with other