LEARNING BY READING NOVELS: TO DEVELOP STUDENTS CLASS 10-12 ABILITY IN MASTERING VOCABULARIES Hiqma Nur Agustina Email: hiqma@unis.ac.id English Language Education Universitas Islam Syekh-Yusuf Jl. Maulana Yusuf No. 10 Babakan, Kota Tangerang Abstract: Literature is limitless without any boundary. As the products of mankind, literature contributes many aspects of creativity, unspoken feelings, minds even the hidden events. Many common people, scholars, students have changed their mindset to appreciate more about many literary writings nowadays. To see this changes attract me as the English literature lecturer to reveal some benefits while people in common and finally students changes their habbits with reading than busy with the sophisticated gadgets. Literature can’t be denied also give contribution to fulfill our passion about humanity. For example: novels as the source of literature masterpiece deliver many themes which represent human beings’ problems in the long period till now. This writing tries to show the importance of mastering vocabularies through reading novels in English course for Senior High School Class 10-12 students since the curriculum in our country prefer teaching Structure or Grammar than giving practice in comprehending English through reading novels. There will be a great wish to see students in this level will have great skill in delivering, understanding, enriching vocabularies through reading novels. In the conclusion, the writer denotes through the concept of reading novels as one of the sub-topics in Reading skill will develop students’ ability. There must be a strong willing and concept changes of the curriculum to improve the students quality. Both it can be from government as the decision maker, teacher as the direct guidance and mentor in the class and the students as the object of learning. Key words: Literature, reading novel, method of learning, mastering vocabularies, students class 10-12 INTRODUCTION Starting with these lists of questions: What is literature? Is it important to be learnt? Why do we read? Those will make people neglect or interest in the same time. Those questions arise when people mention or talk about literature. Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. Broadly speaking, literature is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works but the term is commonly used to refer to works of the creative imagination including works of poetry, drama, fiction or non-fiction.