Skripsi
The effect of online extensive reading on ele students’ vocabulary mastery / Afrida Aryana Azahro
Abstrak
Abstract NBSP The study investigated the effect of an online Extensive Reading (ER) program on English Language Education (ELE) students rsquo vocabulary mastery. The descriptive study involved 123 first-year first-semester undergraduate ELE students from one public university in East Java Indonesia who were enrolled in an online ER course for one semester. The online ER course used the XReading platform as an online digital library. The word goals set for one semester ER program were a minimum of 160 000 words per semester and a minimum of 10 000 per week. Data on the number of words read by students were collected from the Xreading history log and those on the students rsquo vocabulary mastery were gained by using the Vocabulary Level Test (VLT) by Webb Sasao and Balance (2017). The findings indicated that over the course of one semester 81% of the students showed a variety of improvement on their vocabulary level test of 1000 2000 3000 4000 and 5000-word families but 19% of them showed a decline in their VLT scores. Before the ER program was conducted only four students passed the cutting points of 1000-5000 most frequently used words in English. By the end of the program the number increased to thirteen students. Although some students rsquo VLT test scores declined the mean of all the word-family levels increased by 3% - 8% in four months.