The effectiveness of booktrack web application for teaching

narrative text toward senior high school students

Fera Ariana1, Dedy Agung Prabowo2

1
Bengkulu University, Bengkulu Indonesia, ariana_fera@yahoo.co.id
2
Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu, Bengkulu Indonesia, dedyagungprabowo@umb.ac.id

Abstract
The use of multimedia in teaching English will encourage the teachers to be more creative and will
make the students enjoy the lesson. Booktrack is one of multimedia tool that can be used by teacher
to attract the students in the classroom. This study explored the effectiveness of booktrack
application for teaching narrative text toward the tenth-grade students of senior high school. In order
to achieve the objective of this research, the writer designed a quasi-experimental study. The subject
of this study was 70 students of the tenth grade of a senior high school; 35 students acted as the
experimental group to be taught narrative text by using Booktrack App and the other 35 students as
the control group to be taught narrative text by using PowerPoint. The finding of this study revealed
that there was a significant difference between pretest and posttest scores of students in
experimental group. Meanwhile, the post-test average score of experimental group was higher than
the control group. So, it can be said that booktrack application is more effective media to teach
narrative text than PowerPoint. Based on the results, it can be concluded that Booktrack App is
effective as a medium in teaching reading comprehension.

Keywords : booktrack application, narrative text