THE CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES IN LEARNING ENGLISH VOCABULARY DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC OF 8 TH GRADE STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS

ABSTRACT

The study aims to find out the challenges and strategies in learning English vocabulary of the students during the pandemic. This is a descriptive qualitative research that applies data collections ; Questionnaire to collect data from 613 participants of 8 th grade students in Abiansemal Badung. According to the data, there are three challenges to learning English vocabulary: teacher, pupils demand clear assistance from the teacher in order to understand what the teacher says. Students are less responsive to what they get when they express messages or send messages to professors through communication systems. It can be observed that 570 students struggled to follow the lesson because they believed they only had so much time to study. As a result, they paid less attention to the teacher, which resulted in a lack of knowledge throughout online study. Students in a pandemic class confront challenges such as restricted time, an inconsistent network because to insufficient signals or Internet quotas, difficult interaction, and relevant study. Students believe that mastering
vocabulary may be achieved by memorizing words, reading, and studying. There are 6 strategies used the students : Background knowledge with the 436 level students indicate that they used the meaning of word by guessing the meaning, linguistic clues 392 level students employ linguistic clues to figure out what new terminology means by guessing words meaning from word classes, Dictionary strategies with the 391 level students belief if to find out the pronounciation of the word they used dictionary, note taking with 376 level students belief that they used take note to locate the meaning of word. Activation strategies with the 436 level students belief that they used activation strategies to learn speaking and writing, and memory or repetition with the 352 level students used memory/repetition to remember a word for everyday situations. In term of the strategies most of the participants used activation strategies in learning vocabulary. They feel uncomfortable and do not participate in the learning process, most of them find it difficult to accept the existing learning process, classroom, starting from learning environment the lack of consideration that the learning process is considered less relevant due to limitedn space, location, or facilities. According to the findings, the implementation questionnaire to increase students vocabulary mastery during the online learning revealed thet students has difficulties with the learning process. The pupils were unable to follow the process of learning lenguage during the pandemic while participating in online learning. (Descriptive qualitative of the Eight Grade Students Abiansemal Badung District in the Academic Year 2020/2021). The Challenges and Strategies in Learning English Vocabulary.
Keywords : Questionnaire, Challenges and Strategies, Learning English
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