Students’ Interaction in Memorizing Vocabulary Through Total Physical Response Method

Abstract

This study was to analyze the students‟ interaction in memorizing vocabulary through total physical response method. This research used qualitative descriptive research method. The data were collected by using interview, questionnaires, and document. This research had been done to the first grade students of SMP Negeri 18 Medan, consisting of 33 students that were taken from one class. All the population were taken as the sample. The instrument of the research was questionnaires sheet to analyzing students‟ interaction in vocabulary through total physical response. It was to found the students‟ interaction in memorizing vocabulary and most dominant of command and prohibition. Basedon questionnaires, the data got some benefits to TPR method that is to having fun of learning process and increasing the ability of students‟ interaction to learning vocabulary with command and prohibition sentence