Teaching Vocabulary to a Student with High Functioning Autism in the Inclusive School
Abstract
The objective of this research is to explore the implementation of teaching vocabulary to a student with high-functioning autism, student A, at one of inclusive elementary schools in Surakarta. The method used for the research was case study. The finding of the research revealed the description of the implementation of teaching vocabulary to the student A and the supporting components of teaching vocabulary to the student A in the first grade at one of inclusive elementary schools in Surakarta. To sum up, the English teachers who teach the students with autism are supposed to: (1) employ more pictures because they are effective to teach meaning of words to the autistic students; (2) apply read-aloud event since it can improve the autistic students’ pronunciation; (3) utilize a white board to facilitate teaching spelling of words to the autistic students; and (4) provide more examples of words uses in sentences to teach words uses.
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