Kinds of Reading Reading Comprehension

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C. Media for Teaching

1. Short Story

a. Definitions of Short Story

In Mochtar Lubis book “Teknik Mengarang” B. Mathews said: “It is not short story if there was not a thing to telling,…..short stories has something to deliver, although……”. 16 The writer also found in Henry Guntur Tarigan book, also found that Ellery. S said: “Short story is a presentation of a single circumstances or groups which especially impressing a first sight of readers ”. 17 Based on the statement above the writer can say that short story is a story that happens in short duration, it hasn’t many characters and conflict in it is not so complicated. Therefore, the writer can serve this story in one of information in the story briefly, and the important thing is the students can understand it easily because the words are simple. Beside for the success of language focus purpose, especially in teaching reading, short story also engages students to improve their motivation in reading because of short story has many stories that are made the students interested in read it.

b. Kinds of Short Story

1 Based on the quality Henry Guntur Tarigan said that, “Partitioning of classifying of short stories could be worked in any point of view”; which the general are: a. Based on words b. Based on value. 18 16 Muchtar Lubis, Teknik Mengarang, Jakarta: Kurnia Esa, 1981, p. 13. 17 Henry Guntur Tarigan, Prinsip- prinsip Dasar Sastra: Cet. Ke-10, Bandung: Angkasa, 1985, p. 176. 18 Henry Guntur Tarigan, Prinsip-Prinsip, ... p. 178. 14 In his book, Guntur .T also said that based on amount the words which is contain in short story, they have two differences kinds of short story, there are: 1 Short short story 2 Long short story 19 Furthermore, he said that short story is a story that consists of fewer than 5,000 words or approximately 16 pages of quarto with double spaces. It can read perhaps in a quarter. And long short story is a story that consists of between 5,000 words or approximately 33 pages of quarto with double spaces. Perhaps it can be read a half hour. c. Based on the value of literature Henry Guntur said, “When reading short story become a lot, so we know that there are some literaturely important among them, that meets the norms of the literature art itself and beside that there some not, but as entertainment as further”. That clasification means are: 1 Literature short story. 2 Entertainment short story. 20

C. The Characteristics of Short Story

According to Henry Guntur Tarigan, the writer can conclude that the characteristics of short story as follows: 21 a The characteristic of short story is brevity, unity, and intensity. b The main element of short story is scene, character, and action. c Language that is used in short story must be incisive, suggestive, and alert. 19 Henry Guntur Tarigan, Prinsip- prinsip Dasar Sastra: Cet. Ke-10, Bandung: Angkasa, 1985, p. 178. 20 Henry Guntur Tarigan, Prinsip- prinsip Dasar Sastra, ... p. 178. 21 Henry Guntur Tarigan, Prinsip- prinsip Dasar Sastra, ... p. 178. 15 d Short story must consist of a writer interpretation about his concept about life, either direct or indirect. e Short story must cause one effect reader opinion. f Short story must cause a feeling in reading that train of story implicates feeling first, than opinion. g Short story consist details and incident, which can cause questions in reader opinion. h Short story consists of an incident that leads to understand the train story. i Short story must have a main agent of short story. j Short story must have a main actor. k Short story must have an interested effect or impression. l Short story depends on the situation. m Short story gives a whole effect. n Short story provides an emotion.

D. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Short Story in Teaching

of Reading  Advantages There are some advantages if a teacher uses short story in teaching reading. The advantages are as follows: 1 The students can develop their vocabulary. 2 The students are interested in studying the reading subject. 3 The class is more interesting. 4 The student can interest with the stories. 5 The student can motivate and improve their reading ability in reading with read the short story.