Students Preference and Reasons on Using Internet Tools to Enhance Use of Vocabulary for English Academic Writing

This research is entitled “Students Preference and Reasons on Using Internet Tools to Enhance Use of Vocabulary in English Academic Writing.”. It can be seen that this is qualitative research and this research aims to know the internet tool used and the reason on using the tools by students in enhancing the use of English vocabulary for Academic Writing. The researcher used only one instrument, namely an interview. The population of this research was the sixth-semester students who had taken Academic Writing in English Language Education of Ar-Raniry State Islamic University. The sample consisted of 10 students. They were selected by using purposive sampling based on the criteria. From the result of this research, it was found that the type of internet tools that students prefer to use in searching of vocabulary for their English academic writing are Grammarly, Merriam Webster, Google Translate, and Thesaurus. There was 1 dominant tool that was used by the participants in Academic Writing which is Grammarly. They were 4 of 10 participants (participant 2, 6, 7, and 9). On the other hand, there were 6 participants
(participants 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, and 10) used Merriam Webster, Google Translate, and Thesaurus. The reasons of the participants used most of the tools is that because it was easy to apply, and some lecturers also recommended it to those who use Grammarly thoughts it could correct the vocabulary instantly.