The Effect of Using Digital Children’s Literature on Storybookscanada.ca to Students Vocabularies and English Ability at SMAN 5 Padang

Andricos, Abelia Rivanka (2023) The Effect of Using Digital Children’s Literature on Storybookscanada.ca to Students Vocabularies and English Ability at SMAN 5 Padang. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.

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Abstract

Digital children's literature is one of the media that can be used in learning as a way to improve EFL students' vocabulary and English language skills. This study aims to determine whether the use of digital children's literature Storybookscanada.ca has a good effect in improving the vocabulary and English language skills of EFL secondary students. A collection of digital children's literature stories from Storybookscanada.ca was used in this experimental study. This study used quasi-experimental research design and quantitative approach. The population of this study is EFL students, especially secondary students in XI Phase F, SMAN 5 Padang in the academic year 2023/2024. The sample in this study was selected by cluster random sampling. It consists of 63 students from two classes, XI Phase F1 as a sample for the experimental class of 33 students and XI Phase F2 as a sample for the control group class of 30 students. Data was collected through questionnaire, pre-test and post-test. The questionnaire of vocabulary level knowledge was used to measure the level of students’ vocabularies by likert scale. Meanwhile, the English ability pre-test and post-test to measure students' English ability used multiple choice tests. The English ability in this study refers to the ability to listen, read, and write. In addition, daily treatment was conducted in the experimental class using 10 stories with a total of 20 parts to improve students' vocabulary and English skills. Based on the results, the experimental class’s vocabulary level knowledge before treatment was 303.84, and students’ vocabulary level knowledge after treatment was 379.57, while the experimental class pre-test score for English ability was 62.33, and the post-test score was 75.51. In contrast, for the control group, they did not experience much change in their pre-test and post-test results which were for vocabulary level from 300.03 to 302.8 and for English ability from 60.73 to 59.06. The improvement of experimental class’s vocabulary level knowledge and English ability were statistically significant and the improvement of control class’s vocabulary knowledge and English ability were statistically insignificant. This proves that the use of digital children's literature can be a solution in enriching vocabulary level knowledge and improving English ability of EFL secondary students at SMAN 5 Padang.

Item Type: Thesis (Skripsi)
Contributors:
ContributionContributorsEmail
Thesis advisorMarlina, LeniUNSPECIFIED
CorrectorSafitri, DianUNSPECIFIED
CorrectorAmri, ZulUNSPECIFIED
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PE English
Divisions: Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris - S1
Depositing User: mrs Ridha Prima Adri
Date Deposited: 11 Jan 2024 07:59
Last Modified: 11 Jan 2024 07:59
URI: http://repository.unp.ac.id/id/eprint/49459

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