The Use of Extensive Reading in Developing Students’
Grammar Performance
Margaretha Lintar Melati
Abstract
Most students who learn English as a foreign language have faced problems with learning grammar. Unlike, the common teaching of grammar which requires the students to memorize and do drilling, Extensive Reading is offered to give an experience for the students to learn grammar subconsciously. This study aims to investigate the extent of the students’ grammar performance development through Extensive Reading. This research was conducted in English Language Department in Satya Wacana Christian University, Indonesia. The participants of this study were 18 students from one of the four extensive reading classes in the year of 2013/ 2014. The data were collected from the students’ oral reports and semi -structured interview. The findings of this research revealed that the students might not really show the improvement in their grammar performance especially in the use of tenses (including to be), irregular verbs, and regular verbs. Also, Extensive Reading seems to have no direct relationship with the students’ grammar performance. However, the use of oral report in Extensive Reading might give awareness for the students to use the appropriate grammar.
