scholarly journals A SHORT STORY READING SECTION AS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY TO IMPROVE STUDENT’S LITERACY IN SD N 6 PANJER KEBUMEN

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Dwi Novitasari ◽  
Eka Fajriatul Janah ◽  
Muhamad Chamdani
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Story Reading ◽  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
Sentence Patterns ◽  
Narrative Prose ◽  
The Impact

<em>The goverment made changes to the Indonesian education curriculum of the education unit level curriculum into the curriculum of 2013. Changes in the curriculum in 2013 lies in the preparation of the RPP (Lesson Plan) and the ability of literacy. The emphasis on the preparation of the RPP has been resolved with the holding of training, but to literacy still unwell. One way to improve the literacy skills is through the reading of short stories. The reading of the short story aims to help improve reading skills and knowledge of sentence patterns, so it can be an idea to create an article. The focus on this study include: (1) The concept of reading a short story; (2) The impact of short story readings. These studies include: (1) The reading of short stories is an activity habituation to read a fictional narrative prose text .; (2) The impact resulting from the reading of short stories such as enhancing the knowledge, encourage the growth likes to read, and to foster the ability to write.</em>

scholarly journals MOTIF/ARCHETYPE THE OLD MAN IN THREE SHORT STORIES OF ANTON CHEKHOV, ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND NAM CAO

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-32
Author(s):  
Chuong Ngoc Dao
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Ernest Hemingway ◽  
Anton Chekhov ◽  
The Impact

Basing on poetics, structure of works and motif / archetype of the Wise Old Man, the paper examines and compares the image of the Old Man in three short stories: Tocka by Anton Chekhov (Russian), A Clean, Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway (American) and Lao Hac by Nam Cao (Vietnamese). In each short story, the old man leads a lonely life. Their loneliness can’t sometimes be shared or isn’t shared such as the case of Iona Potapov, in Tocka of Anton Chekhov, who just lost his son last week; of the Old Man, in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place of Ernest Hemingway who suffered from loneliness in his old age; and of Lao Hac, in Nam Cao’s work of the same title, who, with hopelessness, has gone away to work in plantation for three years because his poor son couldn’t afford to get married. If the impact of rural elements in the process of social development from agriculture to industry is taken into consideration, we can put these three short stories in the following sequence: Lao Hac (1943) of Nam Cao, Tocka (1871) of Anton Chekhov, and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (1933) of Ernest Hemingway. It seems that the more the society is urbanized, the more loneliness can’t be wiped out. Now, the deeply rooted characters of the archetype of the Wise Old Man (according to Jung) are expressed in only three points: how to best bahave in loneliness.

scholarly journals Developing the Students' Reading Comprehension through Interactive Approaches by Using Short Stories (An Experimental Research at South Aceh Polytechnic)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
Hasbaini Kluet ◽  
Amsar Yunan ◽  
Asmaidi
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Interactive Approach ◽  
Teaching Models ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test

This research was conducted to see the effectiveness of using short stories in teaching reading comprehension. The teaching model was used an interactive approach to be developed the reading skills of second semester students at the Department of Computer Engineering, South Aceh Polytechnic. The reading ability of students was explored and to be found the right teaching model, then the aspects of the ability to be seen was understanding the meaning of words, sentence intentions, information, problems, opinions, recommendations, sentence structure, analysis and communication and student responses after the application of the teaching model in the classroom. After treatment, there was an increase in students' reading comprehension skills especially in the experimental class after using short story teaching materials with interactive approach teaching models to obtain an average value of pre-test = 55, and post-test = 77.67. Whereas in the control class only got a pre-test value = 49,64 and post-test = 67,86. Then there was a significant difference in the scores of the two classes in the post-test scores (77,67-67,86) namely 9,81. Meanwhile, from questionnaire data, 87% of students responded very well and the remaining 13% responded well to the use of short stories with interactive approach teaching models. As well as answering enough options and less as much as 0%. From the responded above, which has helped develop student confidence, collaboration, self-ability and group work. Of course this research was far from perfection and needs to be improved in the future with other teaching methods, while still providing motivation to students to continue to be improved their learning, especially reading skills. So from the results of this simple study it can be recommended that, the use of short stories in teaching comprehension reading with interactive approach models got a significant increase in students' ability in reading comprehension than conventional learning models.

Patterns of Time and the Maternal in the Short Stories of Elizabeth Bishop and Katherine Mansfield

2019 ◽  
pp. 223-236
Author(s):  
Laura Helyer
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Elizabeth Bishop ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Prose Poems ◽  
Mother Daughter Relationship ◽  
Narrative Prose ◽  
Poetic Prose ◽  
The Village

This chapter discusses aspects of rhythm, poetic form, time and the archival in Bishop’s prose and is organised around a discussion of the ethics of the mother-daughter relationship in the autobiographical story, ‘In the Village.’ Bishop’s short stories are analysed in terms of poetic prose and as prose poems. This resonates with Katherine Mansfield’s lyrical, impressionistic experiments in the short story and her ideas about form and formlessness in narrative. Bishop’s interest in representations of time, memory and a modernist aesthetic in narrative prose are persuasively articulated in her key critical essays (‘Time’s Andromedas’, ‘Dimensions for a Novel’). The chapter ultimately proposes that Mansfield can be understood as a significant influence on Bishop’s prose style, helping her to determine her own original fictional ‘voice’ as well as her structural and thematic concerns in prose.

The Content of Tolerance Education in Short Story Learning in High Schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Main Sufanti ◽  
Agus Nuryatin ◽  
Fathur Rohman ◽  
Herman J. Waluyo
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Character Education ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Core Competency ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Tolerance Education

Short stories have the advantage of teaching materials. Because of its short form, it is flexible to be used as teaching materials that do not take long to read. This study aims to describe the teachers’ perception of the urgency of integrating tolerance education in the short story appreciation, the content of tolerance values in the short story appreciation learning instruments in high school, and the content of tolerance values in the short story appreciation teaching materials in textbooks. In order to achieve that, a descriptive qualitative method was employed in this study. The results are as follows. (1) All Indonesian teachers in senior high schools in Surakarta have the perception that the value of tolerance education is important to be integrated into learning, including in the short story appreciation learning. (2) The character of tolerance is always listed in the Syllabus document and the Core Competency component of the lesson plan. Apart from that component, the character of tolerance is implicitly included in the character of "caring" and "open to others' opinions" in 86% of the syllabus and lesson plans. (3) There are 9% of short story appreciation teaching materials that have tolerance education content. The potential for this tolerance content is found in a lot of teaching material topics in the form of learning activities and short stories.   Keywords: Character Education, Short story appreciation, Teaching material,  Textbooks

Investigating the Efficacy of Reading Adventure Time! for Improving Reading Skills in Children with Visual Impairments

2020 ◽  
Vol 114 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-100
Author(s):  
Cheryl Kamei-Hannan ◽  
Tessa McCarthy ◽  
Frances Mary D’Andrea ◽  
M. Cay Holbrook
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Reading Speed ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Technology Skills ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Technology Tool ◽  
Technology Grant ◽  
The Impact

Introduction: Reading Adventure Time!, formerly known as the pilot version of the iBraille Challenge Mobile App, is an educational technology tool integrating digital literacy to support braille reading and writing instruction for students in 1st–12th grades. Designed to operate on an Apple iPad with a refreshable braille display, Reading Adventure Time! uses gaming strategies to motivate students to improve literacy skills such as fluency, comprehension, writing dictation, and proofreading. Methods: The application (app) was developed under a Stepping Up Technology grant (H327S120007), which was disseminated to more than 50 teachers and students. Teachers and caregivers completed a Likert-type scale of technology skills as a pre- and postmeasure. Students’ reading speed, comprehension, and miscues were measured by the app. Results: Over 50 participants who used the app showed gains in reading and technology skills. Discussion: Students’ reading speeds, as measured by the app, mirror the reading speeds found in prior research (e.g., the ABC Braille Study). The impact on technology skills for teachers, caregivers, and students was much greater than anticipated. Implications for practitioners: The study provides evidence supporting Reading Adventure Time! as a supplemental intervention that addresses several reading skills and may be used in conjunction with a total, balanced literacy program.

scholarly journals Mainali’s “A Blaze in the Straw” as a Fine Work of Art

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 143-148
Author(s):  
Rudra Prasad Paudel
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
New Model ◽  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
Artistic Activity ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Story Writing ◽  
Narrative Prose ◽  
Husband And Wife

Art refers to the product of creative human activity in which concepts are shaped and selected to convey an idea or emotion. A short story is an art form, a particular type of artistic activity and a product of the author’s imagination. Unlike novels that usually depict conflicts among many characters, developed through a variety of episodes, stimulating a complexity of responses inreaders, a short story is a brief fictional narrative prose disclosing one character’s inner conflict with others having one thematic focus. It concisely presents events and stirs our imagination. Guru Prasad Mainali (1900-1971), one of the prominent writers and a leading personality in Nepali literature, develops the modern short story in Nepali language and becomes popular with a few stories. His most famous stories have been collected in The Ward (Naso) (1969) in which an elderly Brahman who has no children is obliged to marry a second wife in order to clear his way to paradise. He writes stories in a new model and each is considered a classic. He isa modern artist in Nepali short story writing. In “A Blaze in the Straw,” Mainali focuses on a way of living of husband and wife in Nepali context and proves that the quarrel between husband and wife is not more than a blaze in the straw as shown in the life of Chame and Gaunthali. He, very skillfully, expresses the experience of the characters as it is, which is the greatness of the artist suggested in the art. Based on this fact, this article discusses Guru Prasad Mainali as a modern artist and his “A Blaze in the Straw” as Nepali proverb implied in the title.

scholarly journals The Impact of Storytelling and Cooperative Learning on Iranian EFL Learners Vocabulary Achievement

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 63-76
Author(s):  
Zeynab Rezaei Gashti
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Homogeneity Test ◽  
Cooperative Group ◽  
Work Activity ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
New Words ◽  
Cooperative Program ◽  
The Impact

The researcher investigated the effect of using short stories and cooperative learning together in one class and compared its effect with the existing traditional methods and cooperative program as well as contextualized short-story-based program. To do so, 75 Iranian female EFL learners participated in the study after a homogeneity test. They were divided into three groups i.e., storytelling, cooperative, and mixed. The learners in the cooperative group followed the above procedures of cooperative learning for reading short stories and the short story group was engaged in a question and answering activity was guided by the teacher, as mentioned earlier. Moreover, the mixed group covered the short stories extensively out of the class as described for the short story group and did the cooperative group work activity in class. After the treatment lasted 12 sessions, the learners took the test again. The study's findings reveal that using story-telling can be a good strategy to bypass the difficulty of vocabulary instruction insomuch it gives leaners chances of using new words communicatively to produce target forms in meaningful real-world contexts.

scholarly journals KORELASI KETERAMPILAN MEMBACA PEMAHAMAN CERPEN DENGAN KETERAMPILAN MENULIS TEKS ULASAN CERPEN SISWA KELAS VIII SMP NEGERI 1 PADANG

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Rahmad Satriawan ◽  
Irfani Basri ◽  
Abdurrahman Abdurrahman
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Story Comprehension ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Story Writing ◽  
Class Viii

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study consists of three things as follows. First, it describes the level of reading skills in understanding the short stories of students of class VIII SMP Negeri 1 Padang. Secondly, it describes the level of short story writing skills of students of VIII SMP Negeri 1 Padang. Third, describe the relationship between reading skills understanding short stories and short story writing skills of students of VIII SMP Negeri 1 Padang. The variables of this research are the short story comprehension reading skills as the X variable and the short story writing text writing skills as the Y variable. The research data were the scores of the short story reading comprehension test skills of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Padang and the scores of the results of the short story writing skills text review of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Padang. The results of this study consisted of three things as follows. First, the reading skills of the short story comprehension of Grade VIII students of SMP Negeri 1 Padang are in the Qualification More Than Enough with an average count of 67.01. Second, the short story writing skills of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Padang in short story writing are in the Fair qualifications with an average count of 62.15. Third, based on the results of the t-test, an alternative hypothesis was accepted at the 95% confidence level. Kata Kunci: Korelasi, Membaca Pemahaman Cerpen, Menulis Teks Ulasan Cerpen

The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture, 1880-1950

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Period 1880 ◽  
The Impact

This collection of original essays highlights the intertwined fates of the modern short story and periodical culture in the period 1880–1950, the heyday of magazine short fiction in Britain. Through case studies that focus on particular magazines, short stories and authors, chapters investigate the presence, status and functioning of short stories within a variety of periodical publications – highbrow and popular, mainstream and specialised, middlebrow and avant-garde. Examining the impact of social and publishing networks on the production, dissemination and reception of short stories, this essay collection foregrounds the ways in which magazines and periodicals shaped conversations about the short story form and prompted or provoked writers into developing the genre.

scholarly journals Social Transformations in the Women’s Short Stories in Egypt, 2011-2017

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
AWEJ for Translation &amp; Literary Studies ◽  
Mohammed Almahfali ◽  
Rafah Barhoum
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Social Oppression ◽  
Egyptian Women ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

This study primarily draws on genetic structuralism in unraveling social transformations embedded in short stories written by Egyptian authoresses. It also makes use of feminist concepts given that the content in question is written by Egyptian women writers and hence blends general social transformations with those affected by feminism. Four Egyptian authoresses were selected for this study along with samples of their literary works, written between 2011 and 2017, in an attempt to unpick the social transformations taking place in the short story during that critical period. The study shows that social transformations begin with the subject that is aware of those transformations embedded in the short story and taking different forms. It, in addition, underlines the impact and significance of the setting and how it is used by the women writers to locate and shed light on those transformations. Moreover, there are two types of social transformations, namely negative transformation, embodied in the deterioration of social relations or any undesired behavior, and positive transformation, characterized by the awareness of the subject of the sources of power in relation to the act of change and the influence of the revolutionary action on it. In addition, feminist conceptions are shown to be used in resisting male dominance and its relation to social oppression.

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