Report of Tutoring Student Second Year of Al Manar Boarding School

Introduction

Vocabulary is one of the language elements that should be mastered in learning English. Students need to gain vocabulary as many as possible in order to make them familiar with many sentences and easier to understand the structure and function. Without having enough vocabulary, the student will face the difficulties to express their idea or to comprehend English material.

            Mastering vocabulary is needed to build up the active skills, because the students who have numerous of vocabulary and always improve their limited vocabulary will be successful at educational stage. This report about vocabulary development that student get after studying vocabulary based on multiple choice question. The tutoring was conducted student in Al Manar boarding school, in Ulee Kareng. The student’s name is Nuril Akmalia. She is 17^th years old.  She is 5C class second year of Al Manar senior high school. She came from Brayeun, Aceh Besar. This tutoring done for 4 meeting, and the method is used grammar translation method.

A.    Teacher  and Student Interview

The tutor meet the teacher at Al-Manar boarding school to do interview about goal of students in learning English and what the problem that students face in learning English. Based on teacher interview result show that there is a students that have problem in learning English especially in remembering vocabulary and do not confident to answer the question that teacher give in classroom. The teacher give the name of student and ask that student to follow the tutoring of learning English.

Furthermore, the tutor’s meet the student that want to give the tutoring gather with teacher. The tutor determine the time with students. Based on student interview the time for tutoring in learning English is did in afternoon, on Tuesday and Friday. The turoring was 3 meeting  in front of dormitory and 1 meeting in canteen. The media that used in this tutoring is printed media (Question sheet).

B.     Procedure of Tutoring

1.      The tutor gives reflexion before starting teaching like asking about she activity.

2.      The mentor give the paper (printed media) that content the questions (multiple choice) about 15 questions of vocabulary in one meeting. (Appendix)

3.      Student answer the question without using the dictionary.

4.      When she finish, teacher and students discuss together. Then, the teacher will asking the students about meaning of vocabulary, new vocabulary that she get and making sentences based on the vocabulary.

C.    Result

Meeting 1

The tutor gave questions paper to student and she have to answer the question about 15 minute without saw the meaning in the dictionary. After the tutor check the answer, the students has 5 incorrect answer. The tutor ask the reason why the questions is incorrect, this because she did not know the meaning. The tutor explain the meaning of the word that with the sentences. After she known the meaning the tutor ask her to made sentences based on the new word that her got. The tutor gave motivation to student about how to be confident in answering the question in front of the class although that the incorrect answer.

Meeting 2

            In the beginning of the meeting the tutor asked about the new vocabulary that student got in the pass meeting. Next, gave paper of questions to her with different vocabulary that mention in the questions. The time for answer is 15 minutes. For this meeting, the student have improvement in answer the questions. She has 3 incorrect answer. The tutor gave motivation again before close the meeting.

Meeting 3

            Same with the pass meeting the tutor will ask student about the new vocabulary that she got before the meeting is begun. After that, the tutor gave questions paper about different vocabulary questions to student and she have to answer about 15 minutes. That mean 1 question in 1 minute. In this meeting the students can answer all questions correctly. The tutor’s gave motivation like the meeting before.

Meeting 4

            In the last meeting, the tutor do interview to student about her feeling during learning and the development that she get after 3 meeting learning. The student stated that she felt happy in learning vocabulary by using multiple choice questions. The student also easier to remember the vocabulary by using that media. They felt any improvement for herself in memorizing the vocabulary. In addition, the student also said that she more confident for answering the question in the classroom after got the motivation in this tutoring.

D.    Conclusion

The result of this study show that the student like studying vocabulary by using multiple choice question. There is improvement of student’s remembering the vocabulary during 4 meeting tutoring and students more confident when answer the questions without teacher point her to answer.