Playing e-quizzes with KAHOOT!: Students’ behavioral engagament on reading comprehension through KAHOOT!

Abstract

Reading comprehension is important in learning English. Students in Indonesia learn English from elementary school until senior high school. However, they often find difficulties to understand a text. The use of traditional media in this modern era is one of the reasons. In this study, the researcher used Kahoot as media to comprehend a narrative text. The purpose of this study is to find out students' behavioral engagement in reading comprehension through Kahoot and to find out the advantages of it. The is aqualitative research with the case study as the reseach design. Participants in this study are 7 students from one of the Vocational High School in Karawang. The teaching process was held 2 times and playing quizzes in Kahoot  2 times too. Semi-structured interviews and reflective journals are used by researchers as data collection techniques. Researchers use Thematic Analysis by Braun and Clark (2006) to analyze the data that has been collected. Based on the results of semi-structured interviews, it can be seen that there are several forms of behavioral engagement while students used the Kahoot application, namely students' attendance, students' participation, students' interaction, students' obedience, students' obstacles, and difficulties. The advantages of Kahoot are that students understand the lesson better, can manage time well, and feel happy when filling out quizzes on the Kahoot application.