Students’ Responses to the Use of BookTok in Vocabulary Mastery

Abstract

Mastery of vocabulary is a golden path for someone learning a language, especially English as a foreign language.  A large vocabulary can make it easier for students to master other English language skills. It is important for teachers to provide media or methods that are effective and appropriate for their students. Not only teachers but students must consciously always try to develop their vocabulary and most importantly they like the media so that when they implement it they will be happy and enthusiastic to apply it in their daily lives, especially in studying English which is a difficult subject for student. BookTok is considered the right medium to improve English vocabulary. Appropriate media influences the student learning process because it can motivate students' desire to continue learning and developing.  The aim of this research is to find out what the use of BookTok is like and how students respond to the use of BookTok in English vocabulary mastery.  This research uses qualitative methods with instruments in the form of interview observations and documentation to collect data. The research results show that using BookTok is suitable for digital generation students such as An-Namirah English Course students. BookTok is a unique medium and is rarely used in learning English. BookTok is very effective in vocabulary improvement. Since this study limited to the students’ responses only, and BookTok is kindly new to students, for suggestion, it is better making it familiar and exploit the student’s activities to the fullest while using it in particular English language classroom to gain various and better results.