Enhancing Students’ Vocabulary Mastery in Learning English Through Digital Extensive Reading in Indonesia
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The purpose of this research is to enhance the students’ vocabulary mastery through the Digital Extensive Reading activity in Junior High School. There were 30 learners of grade VIII participated in this study for 4 weeks. The qualitative data was analyzed by the three steps: data reduction, data display, and conclusion/verification, while the quantitative data was analyzed using the descriptive statistics. The data were collected from the observation, the interview and the students’ pre-test and post-test. The steps of implementing the digital extensive reading activity were included the digital silent reading, the reading report book, the use of dictionary and the retelling. The results showed that the significant improvement from 45.83 in the pre-test to 62.76 in the post-test of the students’ vocabulary mastery. Therefore, the digital extensive reading activities improved the students’ vocabulary mastery.
Keywords: digital extensive reading, vocabulary mastery
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