Digital Storytelling: A Powerful Media to Enhance Students’ Vocabulary Mastery

Vocabulary is one of the most prominent elements in language learning. Any language learners, students, in this case, should be equipped with sufficient vocabulary since its existence greatly influences their language skills such as listening, reading, speaking, and writing. However, it remains someproblems. Such things were also experienced by the eighth-grade of MTs NW Juet, Lombok, Indonesia.Therefore, this study aims to improve students' vocabulary mastery by applyingdigital storytelling at the eighth-grade of MTs NW Juet, Lombok, Indonesia. This research was a classroom action research (henceforth, CAR) with 19 students involved in it. It was executed in two cycles, and each cycle consisted of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The data were gained through interviews, observation, questionnaires and vocabulary tests. After all, the data were analyzed, respectively. The findings indicated that digital storytelling is an interesting media which can stimulate students’ motivation. Besides, it gives students chances to practice the vocabulary in their language skills. Meanwhile, the result of vocabulary test showsa consistent and significant improvement of students' vocabulary mastery in pre-cycle (43.78), cycle I (64.42), and cycle II (73.89).Thus, there was approximately 29.42 point of improvement during the cycles.In a nutshell, this result indicates that the use of digital storytelling is useful to enhance the students' vocabulary mastery of MTs NW Juet.