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Extensive Reading on Wattpad and Its Benefits to Students' English Skills: Students' Perceptions

ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities · Vol. 3 No. 4 (2020) · pp. 518–530

DOI
10.34050/elsjish.v3i4.11714
ISSN
2621-0835, 2621-0843
Published
2020-12-30
Publisher
Hasanuddin University
Language
en
License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore students’ perception’s towards Extensive Reading on Wattpad platform as well as its benefits to students’ English skills. Extensive Reading enables students to read a great deal amount of reading materials based on their personal interests and level of comprehension which is actually applied outside the class room for most people consider it as reading for pleasure. It has also been known that Extensive Reading has many benefits in improving students’ language skills. The advancement of technology over the years allows people to do many activities online, including Extensive Reading activity. Thus, Wattpad is considered to have enormous and various reading materials that can support extensive reading for the students. This study is a case study. The data were obtained from an in-depth interview with the participant who were two undergraduate students majoring English Education from a state university in Indonesia. The participants were selected purposively for the reason they were known to have been doing extensive reading activity on Wattpad for a quite long time, specifically for more than three years. The research findings showed that students have positive perceptions towards Extensive Reading on Wattpad which are categorized into three elements namely cognitive, affective, and conative. Four notable benefits of Extensive Reading on Wattpad were also mentioned by the students such as it contributed in unconsciously improving students’ writing skills, vocabulary mastery, speaking skills, as well as listening skills.

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  • Sebelas Maret University
  • Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember
  • Universitas Halu Oleo
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Suparno SuparnoInstitut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember2
Lailatun Nurul AniqSebelas Maret University1
Khairani Dian AnnisaAffiliation unknown1
Yusuf SabiluUniversitas Halu Oleo1
Suhadi SuhadiAffiliation unknown1
Dewi RochsantiningsihSebelas Maret University1
Dian Agustina Purwanto WakerkwaAffiliation unknown1
Ayu MeiratnasariAffiliation unknown1
Kuntum Palupi SetyaningsihAffiliation unknown1
Sri MarmantoSebelas Maret University1
Wisma WijayantiAffiliation unknown1
Slamet SupriyadiAffiliation unknown1
Hj. Fadhilah Harahab PutriAffiliation unknown1
Ngadiso NgadisoAffiliation unknown1
Novita Indah PurwaningsihAffiliation unknown1
Joko NurkamtoSebelas Maret University1
Masyhudi LathifAffiliation unknown1

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Metadata source: OAI-PMH (metadata jurnal) https://journal.unhas.ac.id/index.php/jish/oai, first harvested 3 Nov 2026, last seen 3 Nov 2026.
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