THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ENGLISH OFFLINE DICTIONARY TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS' VOCABULARY (Case Study At Politeknik Unggul LP3M Medan)

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The students of Politeknik Unggul LP3M Kiri had low motivation to speak English during the English learning proses or speaking in public. Therefore, the researcher conducted a study in which the researcher applied the use of Offline dictionary as one of learning media to improve the students’ vocabulary. Offline dictionary is offline dictionary that can be downloaded by every student in every grade. It can be found at playstore, one of application in android phone. This research consisted of two cycles. Each cycle had two learning processes. Based on the result of the research which showed a significant result, it can be concluded that offline dictionary is effective to improve the students’ vocabulary in learning English.