RENATA SAMOSIR Pengarang GRACIA M. N. OTTA Dosen Pembimbing 2 YOSEP B. KROON Dosen Pembimbing 1 Sebastianus Fernandez Ketua Penguji

This study was carried out under the title Teaching Vocabulary To Young Learners By Using Flashcard: (A Case Study). This case study was implemented to elementary school students aged 8 to 10 who lived at Nangka Street RT 19 / 20 RW 006. The aims of this study were (1) to know to what extent the use of flashcards help to develop students’ vocabulary competence, (2) to find out the advantages and disadvantages of teaching using flashcards. The study used a descriptive qualitative method. It involved 10 elementary school students who different primary school schools, including SDK Don Bosco 2 and 3, SDK ST Yoseph 3, SD Inpres Oeba 2 and SDN Oebobo 1 and 2, students aged 8-10, living at Nangka Street, RT 19 and 20, RW 006. The instrument the writer used to collect the data was a writing test. The result of this research shows that using flashcards can motivate the children to be active in the teaching learning process, because children generally do learning by playing. By using flashcard children could remember words better because they know the real things of the word which are new for them, by using flashcard children can also easily memorize something, and therefore they become more interested in teaching learning process with this the teacher can help the children to remember the word in the picture, to add new vocabulary, and to increase vocabulary master. To conclude, learning by playing with flashcards can help improve young learners' vocabulary. Keywords: flashcard, vocabulary, young learners, elementary school