THE EFFECTS OF USING SHORT STORY ON READING LEARNING AT THE NINTH GRADE OF MTSN 5 BATOLA
ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020 Astuti Prahesti
1,Neneng Islamiah
2,Nurhasanah
3Islamic University Kalimantan Muhammad Arsyad Al Banjari
1Islamic University Kalimantan Muhammad Arsyad Al Banjari
2Islamic University Kalimantan Muhammad Arsyad Al Banjari
3ABSTRACT
Reading is an important component, in that reading skills are one of the important aspects of communication skills that must be mastered in order for someone to be successful in life. reading is the heart of education. This means that by reading, we will learn and reason, which leads to obtaining information as the main tool for a good life. Reading short stories is reading reading that creates an imagination (picture) in the mind. This type of reading fiction is reading that is full of high fiction. Reading activities in the teaching and learning process in the classroom involve various factors, namely teachers, students, media, methods, and places where teaching and learning activities take place.
The population in this study were students of class nine mtsn 5 Batola while the researchers were selected class 9 A consisting of 22 students. Here using a descriptive research design. Researchers used complete short stories as a type of test. Students are asked to read 1 sentence in 8 minutes. The researcher found that the students' ability in reading short stories in the ninth grade of 5 Batola was still low. This can be seen from the average value of students 'reading ability is 66.05 and the average value of students' ability after using the short story is 75.0
Keyword: Short story, Reading learning
INTRODUCTION
In this language there are four skills that must be mastered by the students. There are speaking, listening, writing and reading. In this research the researcher will be focus on reading because reading is one of the four skills which need to be learned besides listening, speaking, and writing. Reading has the considerable role in the language teaching to strengthen the skills which are acquired by the students in listening, speaking, and writing (Maxim, 2009: 139).
Reading is the ability to understand what students read where words have context and texts have meaning. Reading skill allows them to read proficiently, learn effectively and to conceptualize. These skill are basically based on earlier stages of reading development, including oral reading and reading fluency. Without developing these reading earlier skill, students must continually focus on decoding letters and words, rather than progressing to meaning and understanding.
Reading skills are very important in the world of education because these activities will determine the quality and success of a student as a student in his studies. In essence, reading is the act of understanding the idea of the author's message through interaction with written text involving visual and nonvisual information.
Many students are not confident to read English because some reason like not knowing letters, reading word for word, paraphrasing the wrong way, omitting letters or words, repeating words, using lip motion and moving the head, vocal difficulties, difficulty in analyzing word structure, no Recognize the Meaning of Words in Sentences and How to Say It, Not recognizing the main ideas and explanatory ideas, and
generalizing. Because of this case many teacher give more attention in teaching English and use various method, strategy, and media in order to improve students reading skill.
There are many methods that we can use to teach the students in reading.
One of the method that used by the teacher in teaching English is short story.
The use of short-story in Reading learning should be aimed to encourage the students to use what they have previously learnt. Story selection is indeed one of the most important roles of the teacher, since the lengths of short-story varies, choose a story short enough to handle within course hours. The shortness of the text is important for the students because they will see that they can read, understand and finish something in English, and it will give the students a feeling of achievement and self-confidence.
METHOD
Quantitative was chosen as the design to do this research. As stated by Gay ET. AI. (2009:7) in their “Educational Research”
quantitative is the collection and analysis of numerical data to describe, explain, predict, or control phenomena of interest.
The type of research was used descriptive because the researcher only focuses to describe the skill of reading learning of MTSN 5 Batola students.
This study uses qualitative descriptive method because it generates data through the use of instruments such as field notes and transcriptions from observations and interviews. This study also uses data from document sheets such us lesson plan sheets, and teachers‟ speaking assessment sheets.
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION The teacher and students at the nine grade of MTSN 5 Batola does not use English in conveying messages or giving explanations to students. The teacher gives a choice to the student in reading learning practice based on a short story in the lessonstudent worksheet.
Basically, the students at the nine grade of MTSN 5 Batola have already learned vocabulary, grammar, and intonation. Because they seldom practice them they are easy to forget the. They cannot memorize the word and pronunciation lesson for a long time. And of course, when the students seldom practice, the percentage of fluency and pronunciation in reading learning is very low.
In the next chapter, the researcher will explain some conclusions and propose some suggestions.
. CLOSING Conclusion
The conclusions are presented based on the result of analysis as presented in chapter IV on the basis of their result:
The teachers' problem are the low students' ability dominate of less practice reading learning so that reading skill is not optimal.
To increase reading learning of students, The teachers' make use of short story from students worksheet everyday is a good experience for the student to practice reading.
The students' problem are the ability of mastering vocabulary, pronunciantion, and fluency. The students are still in reading learning because they are fear of making mistake. The students feel not really confident to read in front of many student because they realize about their problems.
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