Facilitating students’ English vocabulary learning using make a match technique: A case study at the eighth grade SMP Negeri 1 Prigen

Nowadays, vocabulary is particular important in the learning language. Students will easy to understand the material when they get many new vocabularies. Students’ English vocabulary learning is student’s way to find their selves new vocabulary through the process of learning. The interesting learning can be getting from many kinds of technique. Make a Match technique is the one of interesting technique for students. This technique use the question card and the answer card based on the topic of material. Every student looks for pair of card and matches the card. Make a Match technique will help students to find out the new vocabulary. The aims of the study are (1) to describe the implementation of Make a Match technique to facilitate students’ English vocabulary learning. (2) To describe the students’ responses toward the implementation of facilitate students’ English vocabulary learning. The research has conduct in SMP Negeri 1 Prigen. The researcher uses descriptive qualitative method. Data collected from video recorder, field note, and interview for the teacher. The finding in this study is show that through the implementation use question and answer card based on the topic, students can easy to get the new vocabularies. Students can easy to understand the material through match the card. Therefore, Learning use Make a Match can increase students’ vocabulary, students’ creativity through match the card, and students’ can involve answering question trough form of card.