VOCABULARIES DEVELOPMENT AT ISLAMIC SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AHMAD YANI BATANG

Abstract

This article was created to measure students' ability to develop vocabulary at Islamic Senior High School Ahmad Yani Batang. Research in this article aimed to provide a clear and precise picture of students‟ abilities in developing vocabularies through the derivational suffix approach in the second year of Islamic Senior High School Ahmad Yani Batang. It used a descriptive qualitative approach. It began from the problems and the existing theoretical basis. The data obtained from this research were primary and secondary data, namely obtained by the results of interviews with teachers and students as well as observations made at the school. The sample of the research was taken from purposive sampling data from grade 2 students majoring in Science at Islamic Senior High School Ahmad Yani Batang. The writer also undertook semi-structured interviews in each classroom with the English teachers and students. The result of this research showed that students did not fully understand what derivational suffixes were. Therefore the teacher must provide a lot of theory that is balanced with a clear explanation of the derivational suffix