Enhancing Students’ Vocabulary Mastery Through the Integration of Digital Platform Media in the Form of Authentic Materials Development

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating the effect of authentic materials development integrated with digital platform media in enhancing students' vocabulary mastery of english for accounting. There are 154 students of accounting department involved in this study. This research is experimental research with implementing paired samples t-test as the measurement tool in knowing the authentic materials development integrated with digital platform media in enhancing students' vocabulary mastery of english for accounting by finding the t score and the sig value before and after the implementation of the teaching method. The result of this study showed that authentic materials development integrated with digital platform media had a significant effect on the student's vocabulary mastery. It was indicated by the value of the sig and t result from paired samples t-test analysis which was showed 0.000 as the sig value and -20.306 as the t count. The result of sig value which is below 0.05 and the t-count which is above t-table were clear indicators to argue that authentic materials development integrated with digital platform media significantly impacted the student's vocabulary mastery. In this case, the variable of vocabulary mastery in English for accounting was improved significantly by the implementation of authentic materials development integrated with digital platform media. In addition, authentic digital media are also able to assist the students acquire new vocabulary in the learning process of English for accounting. .