The Use of Pop-Up Book to Encourage Student’s Interest in Mastering English Vocabulary

The present study was conducted to discover the student’s interest in mastering English vocabulary by using a pop-up book. It was addressed at two main research objectives. First, it explores to find out student’s interest in mastering the English vocabulary with a pop-up book. Second, it discusses students responses towards mastering English vocabulary by using a pop-up book. The research employed a qualitative descriptive to investigate a student’s interest in mastering English vocabulary. The participants of this study were seven students of grade two SMP IT Al-Fityan School Aceh. Further, the researcher conducted an interview as a research instrument. The interview addressed some questions that were leading the students to interest and responses towards learning English vocabulary with the pop-up book. The student interview was then transcribed to analysis this study. Thematic analysis was then used to analyze the student’s interest from the script of the interview. The result showed that students become very interested in mastering English vocabulary with a pop-up book. The pop-up book helped students to remember and to find new words of English. Students also assert that learning English vocabulary by using pop-up book was much easier. Students agreed that with a pop-up book, they can learn English vocabulary better and quickly because the media allows students to automatically know the vocabulary without any help of a dictionary. This media had a positive impact on students in learning English vocabulary.