Prosodi: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra
Vol 17, No 1: (2023): prosodi

Improving Vocabulary Mastery of Junior High School Students by Watching Digital Storytelling

Septian Dwi Anggara (State University of Surabaya)



Article Info

Publish Date
10 Apr 2023

Abstract

Learning vocabulary becomes one of the challenges in language learning. Choosing the right media will help the student to gain new words. Utilizing stories uploaded into digital applications in learning vocabulary can be helpful. This study aims to seek whether Voicethread as the media delivering story improves vocabulary mastery of junior high school students and to find students’ perception of digital storytelling to improve vocabulary mastery. This research is experimental research using quantitative descriptive methods.  There are pre-test and post-test to seek the increasing number of new vocabulary. Also, there is a questionnaire to find the students’ perception of using Voicethread in vocabulary learning. The result of the study reveals that students’ vocabulary increased. The students give positive responses to the use of digital storytelling and recommend using digital storytelling in vocabulary learning. The result also indicates that digital storytelling influences motivation to study independently.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

prosodi

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

PROSODI: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra is biannual peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Faculty of Social and Cultural Science, University Trunojoyo Madura. The journal encourages original articles on various issues within Language and Literary Studies, which include but are not ...