SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES ON EXTENSIVE READING DURING ONLINE LEARNING

The aims of the study was to find out the students’ experience when using Extensive Reading materials during online learning at SMA Negeri 1 Tambakrejo in the eleventh grade. Researchers use descriptive qualitative research as a design method because it is comparable to collecting data from student experience, and giving interviews to collect data. Data was collected from eleventh graders who had studied with reading materials using online reading techniques. This study sampled 10 students who were taken using purposive sampling snowball sampling technique. The research findings show that the results of student interviews showed that there were some students who gave good experiences about learning to read using Extensive Reading during online learning. However, most of the students gave a bad experience in learning to read using the Extensive Reading technique at their school. They can improve the quality of English well using extensive reading techniques if the learning does not use online and more emphasis is placed on interactive learning such as making English literacy clubs or gatherings outside of the scheduled lesson hours which are held every weekend. Students prefer to use cover books that are more varied than e-books, to motivate students in reading. In addition, some students also give the perception that extensive online reading learning has constraints that cannot be actively interactive, students who lack interest in reading and monotonous learning.