Constructing the instruments Conducting the Interview
31 words in a text. By doing reader‟s log, there is a space to fulfill new words and
students can write their unfamiliar words in that space. The results were supported by the data of the questionnaire and the
interview. In statement 1, there were 11 students 37.9 who chose SA Strongly Agree and 17 students 58.6 who chose A Agree. Nevertheless, there was
one student 3.4 who chose D Disagree and none of the students 0 who chose SD Strongly Disagree to the research statement. The results show that
reader‟s log influences the students to train their reading skills. Based on the questionnaire, most of the students 96.5 said that reader‟s
log i nfluences their reading skills. They said that by doing reader‟s log and
reading some articles, their English vocabularies were improved. Some students claimed:
“Reader‟s log will help me improve my reading skill because it will add my vocabulary.” Student 1
“Reader‟s log help [sic] me improve my skill when there are words that [sic] unfamiliar to me.” Student 21
The use of reader‟s log also has benefit for the students. From the results, most of the students got new vocabularies through reading artic
les for reader‟s log. In the end part of reader‟s log itself, there is a column that must be completed
by writing down unfamiliar words, its meaning, and part of speech of words. From the column, the students will get new vocabularies from texts or articles. In
addition, based on the data, most of the students state that reader‟s log give positive influences, especially for improving their vocabularies. The students can
32 record the vocabularies they got from the text, so that they can review it once they
want to face the test or when they encounter another text with similar topic. Lyutaya 2011 also states readers log is a media to express opinions, ask
questions, develop knowledge, and make readers think critically. Moreover, from unfamiliar words, the students will grow as strategic readers and independent
learners because they have to find and understand articles by themselves. Building knowledge of the students from new vocabularies happens when the students
fulfilled the part of speech on each word, so they can differentiate the part of speech.
It is supported by the result of data from the interview. Some students agreed that
if reader‟s log influenced their reading skills. A student said that reader‟s log influenced her reading skills because it increased her vocabularies.
She found many new words by reading articles to do the reader‟s log. Based on the data, most of the students stated that reader‟s log gave
positive influences. Also, the positive effects were about vocabularies. They can get many ne
w vocabularies from reader‟s log. A student acknowledged: “The positive one is that by reader‟s log, I improve my vocab [sic]. There
is no bad impact yet.” Student 21
After conducting this study, the researcher found that most of the participants said t
hat reader‟s log gave positive effects for them. They stated a same reason which is positive effects of reader‟s log. One of the positive effects
was vocabularies. Reader‟s log helped the students to know many new
vocabularies. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI