IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY BY USING EXTENSIVE READING OF THE SEVEN GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPK ST. ISIDORUS BESIKAMA THE SCHOOL YEAR OF 2023/2024

Luruk, Aplonia (2024) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY BY USING EXTENSIVE READING OF THE SEVEN GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPK ST. ISIDORUS BESIKAMA THE SCHOOL YEAR OF 2023/2024. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Timor.

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Aplonia, Improving students’ vocabulary mastery by using extensive reading off the seven grade students of Smpk st.Isidorus Besikama. As an element connecting the four language skills EFL, vocabulary plays the most significant role in foreign language learning. In order to communicate well in a foreign language, students should acquire an adequate number of words and should know how to use them accurately and appropriately. However, there are still many of students who lack of vocabulary. One of the ways to improving students’ vocabulary mastery in reading by using extensive reading. Extensive reading is purposely focused on students’ reading as much as possible: not only in classroom but also out of classroom, as cited in Day and Bamford (1998, p. 4). This research aims to find out how extensive reading improving students vocabulary mastery off the seven grade of Smpk st.Isidorus Besikama . The research question of this study is how does Extensive Reading improving students’ vocabulary mastery? This research conducted Classroom Action Research. The subjects of the study were 25 students of VIIA SMPK ST.ISIDORUS BESIKAMA. Instruments that were used in collecting the data are: pre-test, field notes and interview guidelines questions. The data of this study were qualitative and quantitative. Quantitative data were obtained from the field notes and the interview. Quantitative data were obtained from pre-test, progress test and post-test. The implementation of extensive reading in this research is by asking the students to read English story for 10-15 minutes in very meeting. There were provided 35 books in the level 2. The results showed that extensive reading can improve students’ vocabulary mastery based on the increasing in students’ vocabulary mastery and the changes in students’ behavior. It was found out by measuring the mean score of the tests result. The improvement was also shown from the reflection of Cycle 1 and Cycle 2. It is shown that the students know much new vocabulary. In addition, the activities made the students more enthusiastic in teaching and learning process. Therefore, extensive reading can improve students’ vocabulary mastery by way of reading often, exercising in vocabulary assignment more and more, and working in groups.

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