Abstract
The purpose of this article is to review theories and previous studies about the potential offered by e-Book to increase students’ interest in reading. In Indonesian context, where English serves as a foreign language, the problem is the students tend to have low reading habits. According to PISA, by the level of literacy in Indonesia ranks the second lowest from 61 countries. Another fact shows that Indonesia is the country with the fourth largest active smartphone users in the world after China, India and America.one of the alternative ways to deal with this problem is that students must be directed to read text on the screen through online application like e-Books. This article then will discuss deeper about the theory of reading and e-Book, the reason why using e-Book as media of learning reading and how to use e-Book in reading class. Some previous research highlighting the effect of e-Book on the students’ reading interest and how e-Book can increase students’ reading interest will be the next discussion. This paper finally presents conclusion and pedagogical implication as the closing remarks.
Highlights
Nowadays, the problemsin reading is according to PISA, by the level of literacy in Indonesia ranks the second lowest from 61 countries.Because every student starts to be busy with their mobile phone, most student wants everything to be fast or instant
Electronic booksor e-Book is one of the electronic media for reading that can be applied through a computer, laptop, tablet, cellphone or other electronic device. e-Book has similarities with reading in form of books in general; this electronic books consists of several pages and the content of the writing along with the picture inside,Attwell said that e-Books can convert various kinds of texts that we need so that e-Books are downloaded and read through the screen, and not necessarily just for printing (2019)
This paper provides review about some e-Book’s as a learning media and reasearch which are conducted by some experts.The discussion about the use of e-books in improving students' reading processes has increased in the current generation which is already very sophisticated
Summary
The problemsin reading is according to PISA, by the level of literacy in Indonesia ranks the second lowest from 61 countries.Because every student starts to be busy with their mobile phone, most student wants everything to be fast or instant. Weaknesses of students who have bad habits in reading, for example, are lazy to face reading books caused by the high level of ownership of mobile phones. While reading a book from the thin to the thick, everything definitely requires a reading process. Each page per page and chapter per chapter we must go through and enjoy. It is this reading section that is difficult for today's Z generations to pass and enjoy.
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