read because English teens magazine provides many features that related in adolescents’ world.
3. The Advantages of Using English Teens Magazine According to Schumman in Harwood
, “Principle of materials development is make sure the texts and tasks are as interesting, relevant, and
enjoyable as possible so as to exert a positive influence on the learners’ attitudes to the language and to the process of learning it.”
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The English teens magazine can become reading material because it provides a chance for the students to
introduce the language that is used in real life. English teens magazine also has many pictures which contain some features that make the students interest. The
features are: a. There are including those offering fashion and beauty advice.
b. Some pages are devoted to interviews with the popular, well-known stars of cinema, music and sport.
c. This exciting new magazine informs readers about what is happening in the world through its in-depth articles on current affairs, politics and
science; it has articles on the history and culture of people from around the world.
d. It also offers a variety of reviews on recent books, films and music CDs. e. There is some music for a teenager that lists who is playing, where and
when and how to get tickets. Interviews with well-known singers and groups as well as detailed biographies are included.
f. There are completely on articles sent in by its teenage readers. It gives young people the opportunity to publish their creative work, such as poems
or short works of fiction or to voice their opinions on important issues.
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Textbook has topics that unrelated with the students’ life or scientific words so it makes the students uninterested to read. Beside that, English teens
magazine offers variety features that has been mentioned above which are related
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Nigel Harwood, English Language Teaching Materials Theory and Practice, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, p. 90
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Ibid., p. 150
in students’ world especially students in adolescent age. The adolescents who read to gain knowledge were interested in satisfying their curiosity about special
topics, improving their grades in school, or learning how to cope with obstacles in life.
D. Previous Studies
The writer has found two relevants study which related to this research. First, a journal was from Yuewu Wang in China on January, 2004 with the title
English Magazines = Motivation + Improved EFL Writing Skill. The objective of this study was to encourage students to write more freely, naturally, and fluently
while creating and editing an English language magazine. This study was carried out four ties in four different semesters. Four separate classes comprised of 95
English-major sophomores participated. They met for two hours each week for 19 weeks. Students searched through all kinds of materials for what they thought best
fitted their magazines. The topics eventually included in the magazine covered almost everything that interested them such as, arts, culture, and sports. They
spent considerable time adapting rewriting, editing, and organizing their selected materials. The instruments of this study were writing test and questionnaire. Test
result showed that the learner’s success in writing test; it was creative and communicative. The questionnaire result was 97 of the students had been
motivated greatly to be self-sufficient and creative, and their interest in EFL writing.
The second, it was Yenny Sukhriani on November, 2011 with the title The Use of English Newspaper and Magazine to Improve Reading
Comprehension Skill of Year 12 Science Students of SMAN 60 Jakarta. The objective of this research was to describe the increase the students’ reading
competency through authentic text in form of English newspaper and magazines. The researcher used classroom based action research with qualitative method. The
participants in this research were 34 students of XII IPA 2 which consists of 14 males and 20 females. This research has done with two cycles. Each cycle had
four phases that were planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. At the
first cycle the researcher has done the research in three meetings. In the first and second meeting, the researcher used English newspapers to read various kinds of
functional text and a review, then in the third meeting used English magazine to read a review. Second cycle, researcher used questionnaire for recording the
students’ improvement of reading and interest. Findings showed that the given treatment has
resulted in significant improvement in students’ reading skills and the used of English newspaper and magazines in the classroom has been proved
positive in improving students’ motivation. It is not only in increasing students’ reading ability but also cha
nging students’ reading habit. Those previous studies above used as references for the writer in
conducting this research and also as the comparison between those relevant studies with the study conducted by the writer this time. This study was the
effectiveness of using English teens magazine towards students ’ reading interest.
The differences between this study and previous study were the objective of this study and the method of this study. The objective of this study is to find out the
usage of English teen magazine as the alternative learning media for reading will be effective towards
students’ reading interest. The method of this study was quantitative method and the design was quasi experimental design. This study
used two group design; pre-test and post-test. Pre-test and post-test were given to know the effectiveness of using English teens magazine towards
students’ reading interest. The instruments of this study were questionnaire and reading test. Pre-
questionnaire and pre-test were given before using English teens magazine. The post-questionnaire and post-test were given after using English teens magazine.
The effectiveness of using English teens magazine can be seen from the increasing of students’ post-test scores in questionnaire and reading test.
E. Conceptual of Framework
Interest refers to the motivating force that convey to a person, a thing, or an activity; or it can be the affective experience that has been stimulated by the
activity. In other words, interest can be the cause of an activity and the result of participation in the activity. Interest is divided into two kinds; they are personal
and situational interest. Personal interest develops slowly, tends to be long lasting, and is associated with increased knowledge and value. In contrast, situational
interest is evoked by something in the immediate environment, and consequently may or may not have a long-term effect on in
dividuals’ knowledge and value. Reading interest is one of the examples of situational interest. Reading interest
can be influenced by two factors; there are cognitive aspect, and affective aspect. The cognitive aspect consists of concept of reading, age, and reading
achievement. Reading interest has connection in reading achievement. If the students have a high interest, the reading achievement will be good. The affective
aspect consists of two elements, such as teachers, and reading materials. Teachers and reading materials are connected. Teachers develop topic knowledge, and
provide a variety of topic in learning materials based on the difficulty level of students. Students who know more about a given topic are more likely to become
interested in it. Alternatively, if a student is asked to read from a text that assumes too much prior knowledge, and thus requires a lot of inference, interest and
comprehension are difficult to achieve. English teens magazine is colorful mass media which has many pictures and consists of variety features like fashion,
beauty, sports, and news about the happening in the world. English teens magazine can use in reading material for students. The students are interested to
read English teens magazine because the students feel like they read about their world, especially the teenager students.
The writer thought that those definitions have close connection to one another. It can be supported from some theories stated in this chapter by linguists.
One of the writer’s purposes conducting this research is to help students solving their problem in reading interest. Many linguists agreed that English teens
magazine is effective to be used as the reading material in teaching reading. Some teachers use textbook in teaching reading but the students can feel bored to read in
using textbook. A textbook is too dif ficult may discourage students and pose
problems for the teacher; a textbook that does not challenge students will fail to d
evelop their students’ literacy skills.
Beside that, English teens magazine contains pictures, graphics, or subheadings. The content of English teens magazine usually are news, sport,
fashion, tips, true experiences of someone, and may include posters, stickers, small samples of cosmetics or other products. The English teens magazine is
suitable as a reading material in adolescent students ’. The adolescent students’
prefer reading to other sources of information or entertainment because they feel reading provides great depth understanding, more details, more insights on
character, and an understanding of interpersonal relationship. Based on the explanation above, the writer thought that using English
Teens Magazine as an alternative reading media will be effective towards students’ reading interest.
F. Research Hypothesis
The hypotheses of the study can be formulated as follows: Ha
: There is a significant difference between students’ interest in
reading by using English teens magazine and without English teens magazine.
