IMPLEMENTATION OF HYPONIM IN IMPROVING STUDENTS' SPEAKING SKILL

Abstract

ln mastering English, Speaking is one of four basic skill that given to the students. As an oral productive skill, speaking which happens face to face between speaker and hearer (Widdowson.2Oll). It is a kind an interactive process to build meaning which covers producing, receiving, and processing inlormation (Burns and Joyce, 1997). Lack vocabulary is the major factor that students got difficulties to speak English at Faculty of Islamic Educational and Teacher Training, State Institute for lslamic Studies Imam Bonjol Padang. This can be seen from the results ofstudents'skills in interacting with one another and in lectures.. Their limitations in communicating orally clearly visible on disconnections process interaction, pause (silence), and miscommunications. From the existing literature it is known that the source of the above weaknesses caused by lack ofvocabulary (Rivers, l991). In order to make students able to speak English, the teaching of speaking must cover some components that indicated by mastering pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension (Brown, 1994). Hyponym can help students have some vocabularies in developing and improving their speaking skills through techniques: clustering, listing, pointing, and treeing. They are confident to speak. They also use antonyms as well as a synonym and homonyms. The students are encouraged to describe something or someone in and out class after they have some vocabularies. The lecturer then give feedback and the expansion of the topic for activity.