ABSTRACT Tania, Ade Putri. 2023. “The Use Of E-Flipbook To Facilitate Students Reading Skill In Smkn 1 Kediri”. Thesis, English Education Department, Faculty of Education, State Islamic Institute of Kediri. Advisor (I) Dr. Toyyibah, S.S.,M. Pd (II) Ria Fakhrurriana, M.Pd. Keywords: Reading skill, E-Flipbook to facilitate students Reading is one of the English skills along with speaking, listening and writing. In some situations, reading English becomes difficult for some students. One of their problems may occur in the recognition of words or vocabulary in English. Reading itself is the activity of looking at the text and the process of understanding the contents of the text aloud or inwardly or expressing a thought to a reader who is liked by the general public and also understood by someone they love. In reading, the reader must also know how to make the reading understandable, before understanding the reading we must also attract ourselves to be interested in reading in order to capture the lessons conveyed. Now, technology in general or multimedia is very much playing an important role in education to make learning easier for teachers and students. Therefore, researchers try to use digital book media such as flipbooks in teaching, especially to attract students interest in reading. This research was conducted to find out the use of E-Flipbook to facilitate students reading skills at school and to find out what advantages arise when we use this media. Many reading media grew with technology, books turned into e-books like EFlipbook . According to Sindi Permatasari (2021) that in general, this multimedia device can include pdf files, images, videos, and animations to make E-Flipbook creators more attractive. In addition, E-Flipbook builder includes template designs as well as features such as backgrounds, control buttons, navigation bars, hyperlinks, and background sounds. Students can read with a feeling as if they were physically opening a book because there is an animation effect that when the page is shifted, it is as if they are physically opening a book. This research was conducted to know the effectiveness of E-Flipbook in increasing reading motivation. This research was conducted through online interviews with students and teachers at SMKN 1 Kediri using E-Flipbook . To find out the effectiveness of E-Flipbook s, this research first needs to find out how much students are interested in using E-Flipbook s as a medium for reading them and find out the shortcomingsof E-Flipbook based on their point of view. The results of this study used a qualitative descriptive research method and showed that this E-Flipbook was very useful for the continuity of student learning at SMKN 1 Kediri, initially not many understood what this E-Flipbook media was and what its function was, then when it was explained and given it next learning English, they become interested. Many say "reading becomes more fun when using E-Flipbook , many of the pictures are not boring".

Tania , Ade Putri .   (2023). The Use Of E-Flipbook To Facilitate Students’ Reading Skills In SMKN 1 Kediri. IAIN Kediri