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
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