Analyzing the data Reporting the results

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 33

b. Recognizing main ideas

Finding the main idea in a text is a key to understand the point of the text Langan, 2010. It means that learning how to recognize main idea is to increase reading comprehension of students. Based on the data, a student said that by reading articles, she can understand the main ideas from articles easily. From the reader‟s log, the students can understand the content more easily. A student acknowledged: “.....reader‟s log is an assignment. We found an article, the main idea of the article, and the meaning of w ords which we did not know yet before.” Interviewee 2 The space provided in the reader‟s log is an opportunity for students to express their opinions towards a text, reflecting on their understanding and identifying what they know and learn from the text Lyutaya, 2011. Through the reader‟s log, the students can express their opinions from the text. It means that they can express a main idea by reading articles through reader‟s log. Therefore, they can understand the content of the texts by recognizing the main idea. Based on the findings, a student said that initially he did not like to read articles, but after he did the reader‟s log, he was forced to read articles and he had to do the assignment. Even though, at the first reader‟s log is a must, as the time went by, it became his habit. It means that r eader‟s log influenced students‟ reading habit.