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THE EFFECTS OF USING SHORT STORY ON READING LEARNING AT THE NINTH GRADE OF MTSN 5 BATOLA
ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020
Astuti Prahesti
Islamic University OF Kalimantan [email protected]
Neneng Islamiah
Islamic University OF Kalimantan
Nurhasanah
Islamic University OF Kalimantan
ABSTRACT
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 75.00
Keyword: Short story, Reading learning.INTRODUCTION English is an International language that is used by many people in the world. It is use for several purposes such as travel, business, communicate and build a relation with other countries. This language is very necessary because it can become a link to build a relationship with other countries.
English is also our means to connect with the outside world we can exchange information about culture, daily life, promote our country. For this reason, it should be able for people to equip themselves to study English earlier. Because of this we need to learn English seriously to have many experiences especially in international level. Whereas today English is in the world’s most widely studied foreign language (Jack C.
Richard and Theodore S. Roger, 2005).
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 simply an unbreakable habit, even an addiction, begun in childhood. It’s foolish to deny that many student read solely to avoid failing a course. But, generaly reading, many life-long readers freely pick up articles and books to gain information, pass the time enjoyably, and deepen their knowledge about themselves, the word, and its people.
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
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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 English teaching should be aimed to encourage the students to use what they have previously learnt. The use of short story is potentially improving reading ability, because the use of short story as a media can possibly makes the students exchange the knowledge in learning process.
Among the literary styles, the short story is an appealing one indeed and can therefore be employed for the purposes of language learning. the short stories can open up opportunities for extensive and intensive reading. A reading assignment asking students to work on a story over a short time without making extensively use of dictionary will significantly go up their reading speed and also inspire meaning guessing in reading (Goodman, 2007).
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
Research Design and Setting
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 research was conducted at MTSN 5 Batola. This school is located at Jl. Desa Banyiur RT.03, Anjir Pasar, Kabupaten Barito Kuala, Kalimantan Selatan postcode 70565 on February 2020.
Population and Sample
The number of the students is 22 students. All the population was taken as the sample of the research. extention consist of 17 students.
Data Analysis
the researcher analyzed the data using SPSS application to find mean score, the standard deviation, the mean, the mode and precentage. the researcher analyzed the students’ score based on the assessment.
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 1. Fluency scores
Based on the table, the students’ scores in fluently show some students’ less mastered that and others are in the stage of needing to practice their fluently
2. Accuracy scores
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Based on the table, the students’ scores in fluently show some students’ less mastered that and others are in the stage of needing to practice their fluently.
3. Pronounciation Scores
Based on the table, the students’ scores in fluently show some students’ less mastered that and others are in the stage of needing to practice their fluently.
4. Intonation Scores
Based on the table, the students’ scores in fluently show some students’ less mastered that and others are in the stage of needing to practice their fluently.
Based on the result above it which explained how to find the data the result of data, and the research of the analyzed data. The process of data analysis were as follow The data are taken from the result of observation and that already been by the students, The researcher backs up the result of observation the researcher ask the teacher the pre- test students’ as supporting the data, and The data analysis is interpreted by the explanation from the result of collecting data process
CLOSING Conclusion
The conclusions are presented based on the result of analysis as presented in chapter IV on the basis of their results 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, and than he 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.
Suggestion
1. The principle of MTSN 5 Batola can suggest the English teacher to apply short story as the material in reading learning.
2. The teacher should select some aspects of short story first before using it in teaching descriptive or narrative text.
The aspects include vocabulary, length, language, story, and so on.
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Every student should be more active and communicative in every activity provided. So, the communicative ability can be built in themselves.BIBLIOGRAPHY
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