STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN MASTERING VOCABULARY AT SMA NEGERI 5 PALANGKA RAYA

The purpose of this research conducted was to find out students' problemsin mastering vocabulary, and find out the factors cause of students’ problems inmastering vocabulary in XI Social 1 at SMA Negeri 5 Palangka Raya because inthis class, students faced several problems to learning English subject, and ofthese problems is the ability of students in mastering vocabulary.Then researcher applied qualitative methods, and a case study approach toconduct this research. The data collection taken from test, questionnaire, andinterview. The test used to identified students’problems in mastering vocabulary,which has two section, namely, oral test and written test. The use of questionnairein this research to confirms students’ problems, and find out the factors cause ofstudents problems in mastering vocabulary. There are two types of questions inthe questionnaire, that is close-ended, and open-ended question. Then the last datacollection is interview, to confirms and finds the detail about the results ofquestionnaire. Furthermore, the data analyzed use three steps, namely, datareduction, data display, and drawing conclusions. In data reduction, the dataresults taken from the test, and questionnaire to identified students’ problems andfactors cause in mastering vocabulary. While the data results from interview, itwas to find out the detail of the data results of questionnaire. In data display, theresearcher reorganized the data results from test, questionnaire, and interview, soresearcher could connect and analyze the data. Further, drawing conclusion is thelast steps of data analysis in this research, and the purpose of this last steps toanalyze the data results of test, questionnaire, and interview.Lastly, the result shown, students are difficult to pronounced theunfamilliar word, confused between the pronunciatiation and written of English,memorize the long and fast words, confused for the structure of English, and alsothey almost could not answer the question in interview section because theirinsufficiant vocabulary in English. Additionally, the research also found thefactors cause of students’ problems in mastering vocabulary that appeared frominside the student, such as students’ laziness, boredom, and students told English isdifficult, and learn English only as the requirements subjects. On the other hand,there are also the factors cause appeared outside the student, like the passivemethods used by teacher in the class, such as only learning used book that madestudents less interested in learning process, and also the learning English withoutlearning facilities which could support the learning more attractive for students.