Abstract
Reading skill and vocabulary mastery become very pivotal for the ESL students to understand the English language-used properly. That condition should be achieved with the right ways; and one of which is using the VSS. Therefore, this study aims at investigating the effectiveness of Vocabulary Self-collection Strategy (henceforth VSS) on students’ reading and the achievement of vocabulary. The quasi-experimental research was applied and the instruments were pretest-posttest. The VSS was used as the independent variable in this study while reading skill and vocabulary mastery were used as the dependent variables. The pretest-posttest was assigned to gather the data. Then, the test related to reading skill and vocabulary mastery were validated via the expert judgment and a validity of content. Additionally, the instruments regarding its reliability was measured by using the reliability of inter-rater. Afterwards, the parametric statistical technique of T-Test and MANOVA test using SPSS 22. Computer program was employed to analyze the data. The findings showed that VSS reveal a significant effect toward students’ reading skill and vocabulary mastery. This means that the students get easy to understand the English texts given. It is due to their prior knowledge of vocabulary they have too. This study also proves that the use of VSS can be one of the ways of other strategies to teach the reading and vocabulary in the ESL context.
Highlights
Recently, many ESL pupils are struggling in learning English because they put overmuch interest in the spoken language without realizing that reading skill is mandatory in order to enable them to explore more vocabularies and expressions for their conversation purposes
In the same view with Hirsch, Antonacci and O’Callaghan (2011:10) state in which the mastery of vocabulary and the comprehension of reading have a great connection that can be seen by the teachers’ experiences when they teach that show the result of the good result related to the mastery of vocabulary test has influenced to the good result of the comprehension of reading test too
It can be meant that this vocabulary self-collection strategy (VSS) could develop the competence of the students in terms of reading and mastering the vocabulary
Summary
Many ESL pupils are struggling in learning English because they put overmuch interest in the spoken language without realizing that reading skill is mandatory in order to enable them to explore more vocabularies and expressions for their conversation purposes. English teachers are asked to introduce the students to interesting learning experiences in order to build their interest in the skill of reading as one of the 4 language skills, reading is needed to be enhanced in process of teaching a foreign language namely English. The students get information, entertainment and can improve their knowledge. In this case, reading can be meant as the process of written-symbols such as letters, punctuation marks and spaces, and obtaining the meaning from them. The students look the written symbol and convert them into words, sentences, and paragraphs when they read some texts. When they read English materials for their special subject
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