THE EFFECT OF APPLYING SOCRATIVE ON STUDENTS’ READING ABILITY

This study aimed to determine the impact of the application of socrative to the reading ability of students in industrial 4.0 era, where anything was done using the internet and computers. The method used in this study was the pre-experimental type One Group Pretest-Posttest. This method used a class that was used as the object of research. This research was conducted at SMK 1 Baureno located on Jl. Raya Kepohbaru Department No. 258, Baureno, Plumbungan, Bojonegoro. The object of this research was the 10 th grade computer and network engineering students at SMK 1 Baureno. The number of students was 34 consisting of 17 male students and 17 female students. This research was conducted on February 5 through March 11, academic year 2019/2020. There were three activities carried out, namely pretest, treatment and posttest. The hypothesis accepted in this study was the alternative hypothesis (Ha). Because the results of this study indicated that the t-test of 34 students was 17,07 with a significant level of t-table 0,05. This mean that there were differences in the ability of students before and after treatment was given. And from the results of questionnaires that had been done that 10 grade students of computer and network technique at SMK 1 Baureno prefered to read online (using socrative) rather than reading offline.


INTRODUCTION
Reading is a simple thing but it is often difficult for many people to do.
Reading is an easy activity to do but often it has become a habit. Many people interpret that reading is a boring activity and just a waste of time. Especially in this day and era, namely in industrial 4.0 era where everything has been replaced by internet technology, computers or robots.
Everything can be added into visuals that are more attractive to people who make people less interested in reading.
Nowadays, reading interest for teenagers, especially students, is decreasing, for example, when they read English reading. They will only immediately see the end of the reading without reading how the process happens when getting that conclusion. Because they think that reading is boring especially in English where they do not know how to read the vocabulary and they do not understand the meaning of the reading which makes them lazy to read English reading. E-Link Journal Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020) p-ISSN: 2085-1383e-ISSN: 2621-4156 The Effect of Applying Socrative on Students' Reading Ability… 49 In this 4.0 industry era, many students are not interested in reading books but they are more interested in reading through their smart phones. Reading can also be considered as a process to understand what is implied in what is written, that is understanding the meaning contained in the written words.
The meaning of reading does not lie on the written page but on the reader's mind.
Thus the meaning will change, because each reader has a different experience that is used as a foll to interpret these words (Harjasujana in Sumendar, 2008: 32-35).  (2016) states that e-learning media socrative is a product in processing material.
In socrative there are five menus, namely:

Launch
The launch feature there will be several choice such as quiz, space race, ticket excit and quick question in the form of multiple choices, true or false and short answer.

Quizzes
This menu serves to create quizzes or questions.

Rooms
This menu serves to create a room that is in the sense of making a group for students. In this menu they can see how many students join the teacher account.

Reports
This menu serves to display the history or all activities that they do in the socrative.

Results
This menu has a function to give the final results of students' scores after working on the tests given by the teacher.
They can get students report by clicking finish, there will be three choices, namely get reports, view chart, and to launch. The report can be sent via email or downloaded directly.   Learning using socrative also can make E-Link Journal Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020) p-ISSN: 2085-1383e-ISSN: 2621-4156 The Effect of Applying Socrative on Students' Reading Ability… 57 easier and more creative to understand and make present continuous sentence. And the last is the students do not have any difficulty in learning reading using socrative.
To sum up, socrative can help teacher and students to make easier on learning reading. It can be their media on learning reading.