THE PROBLEMS OF LEARNING ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN HARAPAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

The aim of this study is to find out the problems in learning English Vocabulary especially in the eleventh-grade students of Harapan Senior High School Denpasar. This study used quantitative method and also supported by descriptive qualitative method to help the quantitative explanation. In this study, the writer had 70 students of 11 social 2 and 11 social 3 at eleventhgrade students in Harapan Senior High School Denpasar. The writer gave a test to the participants. Since this study has purpose to know the students’ problem in learning vocabulary, the writer also interviewed 3 students who got lower score than other students to get rich description of the problems. The eleventh-grade students still have many difficulties in vocabulary learning. The categorization of the student problem is based on vocabulary learning aspects, such as pronunciation, spelling, word meaning and word use. The average score that the students got in pronunciation is 81,43%, in spelling is 59,71%, in word meaning is 71,02%, and in word use the students got 73,33%. So, the students still have problems in vocabulary. Furthermore, the problem can be caused by many factors, such as: hard to memorize many words, their motivation, or lack of experience in language learning.


INTRODUCTION
Language is a communication tool to convey ideas, messages or information is in people mind which can be conveyed spoken or written. World has many countries that have various cultures, languages, foods, and many things that other country didn't have. Therefore, people need language to transfer messages or making a deal with someone else. English language is one of the foreign languages that most of countries select as an international language. As an international language, English widely used by people in the world and we should learn English as a second language. English as a language communication is clearly needed by many people to deliver or interact with another people in the variety situation. Around the world, especially in Indonesia people have learnt English from childhood. Although they have learnt English since childhood, they still get problems when learning English. They believe English is worst subject that have lots of vocabulary, difficult pronunciation, spelling and hard to find suitable meaning.
Vocabulary is an essential component in language proficiency and determines how well learners listen, speak, read and write (Richards and Renandya, 2002). In Harmer's book (2001( , as cited in Ningrum 2015, there are some aspects that should be discussed in vocabulary, such as: pronunciation, spelling, word meaning (synonym, antonym, connotation, and denotation), and extending word use (idioms, word combination or collocation). Those are the aspects that make students find many problems to learn English.
Moreover, there are many factors that make the students found problems in learning English vocabulary such as linguistics and nonlinguistics factor. Linguistics factor is related to language difficulties (grammar or the rules that language used). There are 2 kinds of nonlinguistics factor such as, internal factors (related to peoples' motivation, interest, and memories the words) and external factors (related to teaching method, environment, or situation). Based on the explanation, the writer are interested to conduct research about knowing the common problems in vocabulary learning.
The aim of this study is to know the problems that faced by the students especially in Harapan Senior High School. The school was chosen because the students are not interested in learning language. It can be seen when the students are doing online learning in Google Meet or Zoom Meeting because of COVID-19, they are not excited when learning English language than learning other subjects. It is supported when the writer asked 4-5 students in that school why they didn't interest in learning English. It is interested to analyze because they are not interested with English because of its difficult structure, pronunciation or grammar. Then, this study focused on the discussion of students' problem in learning English vocabulary especially in pronunciation, spelling, word meaning and using word appropriately.

METHODS
The data was taken in Harapan Senior High School. The school is located on Jalan Raya Sesetan number 62, Denpasar. The participants were from eleventh-grade of senior high school students. There are 10 classes that consist of 350 students and after asked permission to the teacher gave 2 classes of eleventh-grade with 70 students for the participants.
This study used quantitative method supported by qualitative method. In quantitative method, the writer conducted a test and then distributed to the participants in Google Form. The writer got the questions from Nunik Rahmawati by using this instrument and she already been practiced for the students in that school. The test was provided with 4 multiple choices of 20 questions. There were 4 sections in this test based on Harmer's opinion in his book and the score presented by using table. Also, the writer conducted the interview in qualitative method. The interview conducted after the score of the test is listed, then conducted interview for the students who have lower score than other students and the writer got 3 students for the participants in the interview. The table showed that 81,43% of students had no problems in answered the questions and 18,57% of them still had the problems in answered the question about pronouncing the word. It can be seen from the table, the question number 1 has lowest percentage in pronunciation section. The word "huge" they were 50 students answer correctly and 20 of them are failed. Also the writer conducted interview to the students who have lowest score and said:

"Hulk kan soalnya besar (in the film) yaudah tak pilih hulk aja. Saya juga taunya large itu 'besar' terus kalo 'very large' gatau, yaudah jawab hulk aja" (Student 1)
"Hulk is a big man (in the film), so I choose hulk for the answer. I only know large means 'besar' and I do not know the meaning of 'very large', so I choose hulk for the answer" (Student 1) All the participants have problems in pronouncing the words because the pronunciation between word and spelling is different and become their difficulty in learning English. Furthermore, Hulk was not the answer. Hulk is one of the character superhero in the film of Marvel Universe, he has huge body and has green color all over his body. They chose that answer because he has similar body characteristics with Hulk in the film. And most of students were not familiar with the word pronunciation, so they chose an approaching answer. This table showed that 59,71% students could answer the questions correctly and 40,29% still had problems in answer the questions about spelling. This case is quite similar with pronunciation section. The basic problem in learning spelling in English is because the ways in reading word are totally different. One syllable had more than one way in utterance and it is vice versa with Bahasa Indonesia. Based on the interview that had conducted the participants were not taught by the teacher how to spell the word well and they just learnt how to read the word with a repetition and it made them found difficult in spelling the words.

Students' Score in Spelling
"Gak pernah tapi pernah denger aja. Saya gapernah belajar itu soalnya" (Student 1) "Never but I have heard of it. I never studied about spelling before" (Student 1) According to Ur (1996:60), there are several important points that must be considered when teaching vocabulary, namely the form of pronunciation and spelling. The learners have to know what word sound is like (pronunciation) and what it looks like (spelling). In this case the students never study about what sounds look like, therefore they found difficulties to decide what the correct answer in the test. The students were taught by method repeating the words and the students will follow the teacher, it makes students bored in learning process and they did not know the meaning of the word in sentence. In the table above showed 71,02% students can answer correctly and the other hand 28,98% of students failed in answered the questions about meaning. In question 15 about meaning "hard" many students got wrong answer. It happened because the students realized "hard" has one meaning "keras". And also most of the teacher when teach English to students with the way translating the meaning into Bahasa Indonesia, it makes they do not know the word meaning in the sentence and do not know the synonym of the word.
From the students that had been interviewed, all of them have decided meaning as their problem in translation. Less knowledge about vocabulary make them hard to know the appropriate meaning and then they decided the answer with what is often seen and heard. Also they realized English as easy as Bahasa Indonesia which have one meaning in a word but in fact is not.