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The Use of Reciprocal Teaching Technique in Teaching Vocabulary to Elementary School Students
Resti Ningsih
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), Fitrawati Fitrawati
(2),
(1) Universitas Negeri Padang 
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 Indonesia
(2) Universitas Negeri Padang 
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 Indonesia
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.24036/jelt.v7i1.8968
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Abstract
Nowadays many problems are found in learning English for elementary school students which cause them cannot comprehend the vocabulary they have learned, for instance the lack of the vocabulary the students have or the theme of the vocabulary is not interesting for the students. Moreover, some teachers do not design an interesting vocabulary learning that makes elementary school students actively participate during the learning. Thus, to solve the problem, the writer suggests Reciprocal Teaching Technique as a helpful technique that can support elementary school students to comprehend the vocabulary they learn. Reciprocal Teaching Technique is designed to create fun vocabulary learning for elementary school students by using puppets. This technique has four strategies which are predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing. Advantages of Reciprocal Teaching Technique are: 1) Motivating the students to learn the vocabulary, 2) Helping students to comprehend the vocabulary better, 3) Increasing the number of vocabulary the students understand, 4) The students can actively participating during the learning activity, 5) The students become confidently expressing their ideas, 6) Granting the students a good skill in learning the vocabulary.
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