ENHANCING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY IN LEARNING ENGLISH THROUGH DIGITAL EXTENSIVE READING IN INDONESIA

The purpose of this research is to enhance the students’ vocabulary mastery through Digital Extensive Reading activity in Junior High School. It is a classroom action research. There were 30 learners of grade VIII participated in this study. The qualitative data was analyzed through three steps: data reduction, data display, and conclusion/verification. The quantitative data, whereas, was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The data were collected from observation, interview and students’ pre-test and post-test. The steps of implementing the digital extensive reading activity were included digital silent reading, reading report book, dictionary use and retelling. The results showed that there was significant improvement from 45.83 in the pre-test to 62.76 in the post-test of the students’ vocabulary mastery. Therefore, digital extensive reading activities can improve students’ vocabulary mastery.