PREMISE: Journal of English Education and Applied Linguistics
Vol 9, No 1 (2020): Premise Journal: e-ISSN:2442-482x, p-ISSN:2089-3345

SHORT STORY AS A MEDIA FOR MOTIVATING STUDENTS' IMPROVEMENT IN READING

Dwi Indah Pratiwi (Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu)
Juita Putri (Universitas Muhammadiyah Bengkulu)
Agung Suhadi (Universitas Muhammadiyah Bengkulu)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 May 2020

Abstract

This study informs the use of short story as media for motivating students improvement in reading that is tested in third semester B class at Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu, based on research in EFL students classrooms state, a good indicator of improved motivation and interest in reading can be used by the short story (Ceylan,2016). This method in this research used experimental methods, based on the research conducted. The result showed there was an improvement in students motivation in reading. The mean score of the pre-test was 67,64. Then the mean score of the post-test is 94,11. There was an improvement in students scores between pre-test and post-test, it is improved 39,13%. It means the result of the test was satisfactory and show the best achievement. So, it can be concluded that improving students motivation in reading by using short stories as media is improved. It means that this technique can be used by other researchers to improve the same reading skill.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

english

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

PPREMISE: Journal of English Education focuses and welcomes researcher in both EFL and ESL context to publish professional or conceptual articles, and research articles formed in qualitative and quantitative study in the area of the following scopes: Analysis on English Literatures in English ...