Furthermore, it is also stimulate reflection, bring out different opinions, and energize absorbing thought process.
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From the explanation above, it can be concluded that through the short story students will enjoy because the story has a sensible and practical idea of
what can be expected. Then the setting of story is familiar with the students. Thus, the setting makes interesting for them and easy to understand what the story
about. Meanwhile, a good story offers elasticity for evocative stretching that moves students toward interesting language use. Thus, good literature, while
promoting language learning, also inspires emotion, provides models and materilas for teaching foreign language.
Besides, almost every word needs the students’ care to find the meaning of
the short story. So, the students also care with the sentences that use simple past tense because short story often uses it. Therefore, it make students more familiar
with the formula or rules of simple past tense. Moreover, the short story can be used to retain students’ vocabulary of regular and irregular verbs because the
students will find many past verbs in the short story.
5. The Disadvantage of Using Short Story in Learning
Short story has a disadvantage for students as the readers. As a fiction, short story tells many unreal characters and settings. When the short story tells a
strange place, the students have to be hard to imagine it. Therefore, to make successful presentation of short story, care and preparation are needed. As this
statement, short story is extremely compressed. This makes the students such a delight. When a short story writer is successful, he or she encapsulates experience
with a masterly economy of language and imagery. The readers are invited to see the setting for example the universe in grain of sand. But this compression can
make it difficult for foreign readers to appreciate the quality of the work, even when they understand its surface meaning. When the readers look at a grain of
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Burton, op.cit., p. 29.
sand, they must be helped to see universe within it, and to respond to it on an emotional level.
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Based on the statements above, it can be conclude that the students can be difficult to imagine the characters or settings if the writer uses the strange words
that can be understand for the students but it is hard to convey. Therefore, when the students asked to retell the short story, they are confused to select the
appropriate verb.
D. The Method of Teaching in the Experimental Class
A method is the way for teacher to deliver the material in teaching and learning process. There are some methods in teaching English as a Foreign
Language. Some of those methods are Grammar Translation Method and Communicative Language Teaching. The writer uses those methods to convey
the lesson about simple past tense by using short story in the experimental class. First, GTM as a method enable the teacher to teach the students by reading and
translating the literature to achieve the learning goal.
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Therefore, in this study, the teacher asks the students to read the example of short story first, and
translating the difficult words to make them easier undertanding the text. After that the students should change the verbs past to the verbs present in order to
make them familiar with the verb past. In addition, they also asked to change the form of past tense like positive into negative or interrogative one. In this method,
the students practice their reading and writing skills. Second, the method of this study is CLT which aimed the students to
speak target language communicatively.
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In this case, the students are asked to retell the short story which they have watched in a video. This activity enable the
students to use simple past tense and practice it in speaking and listening skill.
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Collie, op. cit.,
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Diane Larsen-Freeman, Teaching and Principles in Language Teaching, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 11.
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Ibid., p. 121.
