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Students' Attitude towards reading short story
Attitude can be defined as a student's response to people, places, things, or
events in life. In addition, the selected material, such as a short story, can be
one of the resources that help the teacher in building students’ attitudes
towards reading text. This research discussed about students' attitudes toward
reading a short story. The research aims to determine students’ attitudes toward
reading a short story. The attitude in this research is defined as three
components: affective, cognitive, and behavior attitude. Furthermore, the
participants of this research were sixth-semester students of the English
Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and
Educational Sciences-Pakuan University. The research applied a qualitative
study method and descriptive analysis technique. The instruments used in this
research were; a questionnaire, documentation, and interview. The result
showed in affective components that students felt relaxed when they read the
short story. It was represented by students' positive responses. Then, in
cognitive attitude reading short story, the use of short stories made students
knowledgeable in terms of gaining vocabulary enrichment. Short story
influences students to have a positive attitude while learning English. It
showed that in behavior attitude that students have positive reading habits. The
findings of the study showed that students generally had positive attitudes,
becoming interested and motivated in reading text, encouraging students to
read more and making them curious to read short story.
Keywords: Attitude, Literary Text, Reading, Short Story
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