Using Jakarta Post (Daily Nespaper) to Improve Students’ Academic English Vocabulary of English Education Department at State Islamic University of Makassar

The result of the research presented that the fifth semester of students of UIN Alauddin had “bad” score on pre-test with the mean score 39.75. After giving treatment the students achieved good improvement, they got “very good” score with the mean score 83.50. The outcome of the data analysis revealed that there was a significant improvement in the students’ academic vocabulary ability after being taught using article of the Jakarta Post. It was proved by the result of the statistical analysis of the level significance P=0.05 with degree of freedom (df)= 38 indicated that the t-test values of the students’ academic vocabulary (29,963) was higher than t-table value (2,2021).