The Use of Pop-Up Book to Enhance Young Learners’ Vocabulary Acquisition

Abstract

This research discussed about the use of pop-up book to teach English for young learners. The study aims to find out the implementation of Pop-up book to enhance young learners’ vocabularies acquisition. The research employs a qualitative research with a case study design. The participants were six students around 4-8 years old.  The data were collected through observation. The data were, transcribe, coded, analyzed and displayed in extracted data and tables. The result of the research showed that in enhancing the vocabulary acquisition on the marine creatures’ topic, the marine creature Pop-up book was combined with a storytelling which was delivered in ESA teaching procedure can help young learners to enhance their vocabulary acquisition. The result of the research shows that the ‘dolphin’ word was the easiest to be recognized and also the most frequent. In addition, the teacher frequency utterances during teaching them also give effect to young learners’ vocabulary acquisition.

 Keywords: Pop-Up Book, Young Learners, Vocabulary Acquisition, ESA