The objective of this research was to find students’ difficulties in learning
and acquiring vocabulary at the eighth garade of MTSN Bojo Kajuara.
This research was undertaken as qualitative design with questionnaire and
interview. The population of this research was the eighth grade of MTSN Bojo that
consists of 36 students. The sample of the research was taken by using cluster
sampling technique. Class VIII B was taking as sampling in this research which
consists of 10 students.
The instrument of this research was a questionnaire and interview list. The
result of the data indicated that there was four main difficulties that students’ face in
learning and acquiring vocabulary. They are : 1) difficulty in pronouncing word,
students were confused to pronounce the word because of the difference between the
spelling and the pronounce. 2) difficulty in spelling the word. The main problem of
spelling the word for students was the unfamiliar word and the complexity of the
word. 3) difficulty of diciding the meaning of words. The students were confused of
the meaning of the words which have more than one meaning. 4) difficulty in using
word in appropriately. Similiar with the meaning, the limited knowledge of word use
became studens’problem.
A. Conclusion
From the research that has been done about the students’ difficulties in
learning and acquiring vocabulary at eighth grade of MTSN 1 Bojo, the
researcher concludes that there are four main difficulties that students face when
learning and acquiring vocabulary. They are :
1. Difficulty In Pronouncing The Words
Beside different language, different pronunciation between word and
spelling become their difficulty to have good pronunciation, furthermore they
are afraid to have mistake in pronouncing words.
2. Difficulty Spelling The Words
Failed in spelling of the word become their problem because basically
they did not know how to spell the words in English. It becomes their
problem because the spelling of Bahasa and English are different and it
makes them almost forget and hard.
3. Difficulty In Deciding The Word Meaning
A word can have more than one meaning. One word can have some
kinds of meaning and it depends on the context of the word. In this case
most of students did not know about this, they think that it only has one and
same meaning in every context. Less knowledge about vocabulary make
them hard to know the meaning of the word.
4. Difficulty In Using Word In Appropriately
Similar like meaning, using also make the students confused in
placing where the word has to use. Their limited knowledge about the use of
the word make them hard in deciding the meaning use in the context.
B. Suggestion
Based on the result of the study, the researcher puts some suggestions to
the following parties.
1. The Students
The result of the study shows that there are many difficulties that
students face in learning and acquiring the vocabulary. So, The students
should enrich their experiences in vocabulary learning and acquirng.
2. The Teachers
For the teacher, it is suggested to encourage them in considering a
better way in teaching vocabulary in order to help the students’ in facing the
difficulties in vocabulary learning and acquiring.
3. Other Researchers
There are still many aspects which can be analyzed about vocabulary
and other skills of English concerned with English language. Finally, other
researchers have to do further research with other aspects in vocabulary and
other skills in English language and the result of this study may be used as
early information to conduct further research.

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