INOVISH JOURNAL
Vol 5, No 2 (2020): INOVISH JOURNAL, Vol 5, No 2 - 2020

TEACHING ENGLISH VOCABULARY ACQUISTION THROUGH GESTURE

Novi Riani (Institut Agama Islam (IAI) Yasni Bungo)
Diah Paramita Sari (state Polytechnic of Bengkalis)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Dec 2020

Abstract

Abstract: Teaching vocabulary has been integrated in four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Most of the students always got low mark in the English test. After the researcher interviewed them, the problem was that they do not understand about the meaning of the vocabularies in the text. This research was literature study. The main objective of this research was to explain how far the strategy of using Gesture. The data in this study were collected through observation, documentation book, journal, and internet.  Based on the data analyzed, it can be concluded that gesture can be applied  in teaching vocabulary. There are four categories using gesture; 1) Iconic Gesture; 2) Metaphoric Gesture; 3)Deictic Gesture; 4) Beat Gesture.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJ

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

INOVISH JOURNAL: Journal of Language and Innovation and English Language Teaching is committed to exploring the broad areas of language, creativity and innovation using language as a medium of information and highlighting issues in ELT. Preference is given to articles of English language; articles ...