THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ROLEPLAY IN THE CLASSROOM ON STUDENTS’ VOCABULLARY MASTERY AND WRITING SKILL AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY IN TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT SEVENTH GRADE SMPN 5 KOTA CIMAHI
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The lack of vocabulary mastery and writing skill is proved to be one of the factors that contribute to the EFL students' failure in learning English. Therefore, it is important to find out the most apropriate teaching strategy to teach English vocabulary especially in EFL classroom. Eager to solve the problem, the research expects the role play may lead to lead. Then this paper is addressed to examine whether the role of vocabulary and writing skill has resulted from the conventional method. The research is quantitative in nature and uses the experimental design as the framework of the whole research design. For the purpose of the research, 80 students from the seventh grade of a junior high school in Cimahi have purposively been taken as the sample. Then the result and also proved to be effectife to teach English vocabulary and writing skill.In conclusion, the research suggest that role play will be more valuable, effective and efficient when applied when pacticing language skills than in teaching language elements such as structures vocabulary and writing skill. Then the result and also proved to be effectife to teach English vocabulary and writing skill. In conclusion, the research suggest that role play will be more valuable, effective and efficient when applied when pacticing language skills than in teaching language elements such as structures and vocabulary.
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