THE INFLUENCE OF READ E_FICTION TOWARD STUDENTS

VOCABULARY MASTERY: A Studyof SMA N 1 Rambatan

SUMMARY

This study focused on the influence of reading e-fiction toward

students

vocabulary mastery. The research is conducted at the second

grade students of Senior High School Number 1 Rambatan in academic year

2012-2013.The purpose of this study is to find out the influence of reading
e-fiction toward students vocabulary mastery.This study is hoped will be
useful to:
a. Encourage the English teachers to use many kind of techniques in
teaching English, for instance through reading e-fiction.
b.

Help the students to learn English vocabulary easily through reading

e-fiction.

A. Background
Aktaruzzaman (2011:114) states that ICT has the potential to
enhance information distribution, learning, teaching and managing of
educational services and make them affordable and available anytime,
anywhere. ICTs are resourceful and powerful tool that can create the more
effective learning environments and improve students learning skill.
ICT is technological tool and resource used to convey information
and communication. It gives facilities in order to deliver any information
to people. ICT also contains many aspects of the information, such as
social, economic, politic, and knowledge. It becomes a tool for the user to
interact with others.
ICT has important role in educational system. It can improve
teaching and learning quality. ICT facilitates a teacher in teaching session
by suiting teaching process toward learners need. ICT eases the learners
to achieve understanding through providing auditory and visual media by
the teacher. Aktaruzzaman (2011:116) states ICT based education gives a
learner more opportunities to assimilate the concept through auditory and
visual memory of human brain.
Internet is form of ICT which the user can access any learning
resources. By using internet, a wealth of learning materials that can
support every subject and in a variety of media can be accessed anywhere
and anytime. Online course materials, for example, can be accessed 24
hours a day.

ICT helps to develop any skill through providing the materials that
is suitable with the learner. The skills that can be coached are writing,
reading, listening, and speaking.
ICT can learners help to increase learners vocabulary through
accessing internet as the media. It facilitates the learners with any activity
such as read e-fiction to engage the motivation related to improve learners
vocabulary.
Actually, there are some ways to learn vocabulary, but in this case
the researcher will explain about reading e-fiction specifically. Introducing
some kinds of e-fiction to learners is a good way to encourage the learners
in increasing their new vocabulary. According to Wikipedia, there are
several e-fiction can use for students such as; Crime, Fantasy, Horror,
Mystery or Detective, Romance, Science fiction, Western, Inspirational.
Based on the theory above, this research is focused on the influence
of read e-fiction toward students vocabulary mastery. The research is
conducted at the Second Semester of Second Grade Students of Senior
High School Number 1 Rambatanin academic year 2012-2013.
Identification of the Problem
Based on the background of the problem previously, it can be
identified the problem as follow that reading e-fiction in learning English
can be influencestudents vocabulary mastery.

Limitation and Formulation of the Problem

Based on the background and the identification of the problem
previously, the limitation of this research isthe influence of reading efiction toward students vocabulary mastery.
Based on the limitation above, the general problem will be
formulated in following question: Is there any influence of reading efiction toward students vocabulary mastery?
Definition of Key Term
To avoid ambiguous understanding on the problem above, the key
terms are defined as follows:
1. E-fiction
E-fiction is fiction published exclusively on the internet,
whether by a registered e-publisher or by an individual.
2. Vocabulary mastery
According to

Hornby in

Oxford

Advanced

Learners

Dictionary defines vocabulary as a total number of the words,

which make up a language and that person knows or use.
B. Discussion
Theoretical Approach
Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is one of
the pedagogical approaches which support the idea of learning
together using computers. It emerged from the philosophies of
constructivism and cognitive, two of the most used learning

theories in discussions regarding instructional environments. Yet, these

theories were developed long before the technological impact on
education and long before the appearance of digital natives.
Sorina (2012:111) says Computer Assisted Language Learning
(CALL) is a term applied to any use of computers in a language course
where students are actively using a computer to perform the stage of
practice as an important stage of language learning process. CALL
materials are based on the principles of language pedagogy and
methodology evolving from different learning approaches (e.g.
behaviorist, cognitive, constructivist) and second language learning
theories.
E-fiction definition
E-fiction is fiction published in its entirety on the internet, whether
by a registered e-publisher or by an individual.1
E-fiction written for and read on a computer screen that pursues its
verbal, discursive and/or conceptual complexity through the digital
medium, and would lose something of its aesthetic and semiotic function if
it were removed from that medium.2

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According to Wikipedia, there are several e-fiction can use for

students such as; Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery or Detective, Romance,
Science fiction, Western, Inspirational.
Vocabulary mastery
According to Suyanto (2007:118) said that the definition of
vocabulary is collective word owned by one language and gives the
meaning if we use the language. Vocabulary is a group of words that are
typically used when discussing them.
Vocabulary is important for the students, in which having many
vocabulary can help students in mastering the four language skills;
listening, speaking, reading and writing skills well. As Budidharso (in
Widyaningsih, 2008:3) stated that vocabulary is the main point to
understand ideas and expression.
According to Biacarosa and Snow (in Dalton, 2011), Improving
students vocabulary is an area of urgent need if we are to develop the
advances literacy level required for success in school and beyond. As
Berne and Blaehowicz (in Dalton, 2011) stated that Vocabulary is also an
area where teacher are asking for guidance on instructional approaches,
strategies, and materials.
The vocabulary mastery is not a spontaneous process which is easy
to be done. The process of vocabulary mastery begins when someone is
still an infant. Basically, the babys first language comes from the mother
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tongue. They will master the vocabulary through the simple words by
listening the words which are uttered by someone else. It is known that
English vocabulary learning cannot run successfully without English
ability (English skills) because both of them are very important in English
teaching and learning process.
Analysis
ICT is the technological tool that can help the user to access any
information. It provides many materials to ease the user in every aspect of
human life such as social, economy, culture, and knowledge. ICT has
function to enhance the quality in education. It provides many sources that
can be used by the teacher and the learners.
ICT facilitate the teachers and the learners in form of online media.
The teachers and the learners should connect to internet to access the
information through the ICT. There many facilities that are provided in
online media to help developing any skill such as reading, writing,
listening, and speaking.
Reading as productive skill gets involving in the use of ICT to
enhance students English skill. By reading the learner will find the new
vocabulary to improve their vocabulary. The reading skill can be enhanced
through read e-fiction. To know the influence of read e-fiction toward
students vocabulary mastery as follow:

ICT

Internet Media

Reading E-fiction

Vocabulary Mastery

The use ICT such as internet media, especially read e-fiction

students can find the new vocabulary to improve their vocabulary mastery.
C. Conclusion
There are some skills that can improve vocabulary of students,
such as reading especially reading e-fiction. It easier for students to
improve their vocabulary mastery, because by reading e-fiction students
will find the new vocabulary. Reading e-fiction is one of the interest
activity for student, because many kinds of e-fiction that easy to find for
students. So, by readingfictionwouldaffect thestudents' vocabularymastery.

Suggestion
Writer suggests that by reading e-fiction would affect to students
vocabulary mastery. Students can improve their vocabulary mastery with
kinds of e-fiction itself.

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