According the explanation above, in this opportunity the writer using a sho
rt story as a manner to improve the students’ motivation in reading, so the writer would do research by the title:
“IMPROVING STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN READING AT FIRST GRADE OF SMP ISLAM AL-FAJAR
KEDAUNG”.
B. Limitation and Formulation of the Problem 1. Limitation of the Problem
In this “Skripsi” the witer focused her study on improving students’ motivation in reading by using short story. Reason why she focused on these
aspects on students’ motivation in reading, because she saw that most students in SMP Islam Al-Fajar Kedaung have less motivation in reading text and the score is
still under-average. In here, the writer try to understand the circumstances happend in the field than the writer gather the hope problem and situation into the
research problem.
2. Formulation of the Problem
The problem of this study is started by questions: 1.
What is the causes of the students does not have motivation in reading text?
2. How to improve students’ motivation in reading by using short
story?
C. Objective of the Study
Based on the statement above the general objective of this research is to find out some difficulties under the students’ motivation in reading
comprehension by faced first grade students of SMP Islam Al-Fajar Kedaung and how to solve or overcome those problem.
D. Aim of the Research
The aim of the research is to know whether using short story can improve students’ motivation in reading.
E. Significant of the Study
This research is hopefully used to: 1.
The teacher, this research helps the teacher to teach reading intensively and easyly by introduce them many stories of reading text to the
students. Therefore, the students can enjoy their reading. 2.
The student, this research helps them to practice more and accustom to read an English book.
3. The school, this research helps the school to provide the qualified
students because they will be more competence in using their foreign language, especially English. At least, by improving the students’
motivation in reading skill, they will also get a good score and then will be affecting the school’s purpose in producing the qualified
student.
F. Method of the Study
This study uses descriptive qualitative data. At first, the writer focuses on the problem then she collected the data by observation and interview. She
observed the teaching and learning process at the first grade of SMP Islam Al- Fajar Kedaung about what i
s the caused the students didn’t have motivation in reading and what is the strategies she is countered to solve the problem and she
also uses pre-test and post test to know the last score.
G. The Organization of Study
To make his paper has more brief explaination; the writer would like to devide this paper into five chapters. The following is a brief description about
what every chapter contains.
Chapter I Introduction, this chapter is containing of background of study,
limitation and formulation of the study, objective of the study, significant of the study, research of study, and the organization of
study.
Chapter II Theoretical Framework, this chapter consist of three parts. Part A
explains about motivation, kinds of motivation, and purpose of motivation. Part B explains about definition of reading, purpose of
reading, and kinds of reading. Part C explains about media for teaching, consist of definition of short story, kinds of short story,
characteristic and advantages of teaching by using short story.
Chapter III This chapter tells about the profile of SMP Islam Al-Fajar
Kedaung. It is consist of brief history of SMP Islam A-Fajar Kedaung, curriculum of the school, English textbook, English
teaching and learning process, and profile of the English teacher.
Chapter IV This chapter presents the research methodology and research
finding, consist of method of research, subject and object of the study, place and time of the study, technique collecting and
analysis data, discussion of the data, and the interpretation of test result.
Chapter V The last chapter is about conclusions and suggestions. It is a core
review of previous discussion in this paper and some suggestions that might be useful for the teachers, students, and readers in
general.
