Benefits or Disadvantages of Using Short Stories
Various
advantages have also been proposed for the use of short stories in the language
classes. Short story like other literary texts can raise cultural awareness,
linguistic awareness, motivation, and etc. Short stories is claimed to improve
all four skills. Murdoch (2002: 9) indicates that short stories can, if
selected and exploited appropriately, provide quality text content which will
greatly enhance ELT courses for learners at intermediate levels of proficiency.
Lao
and Krashen (2000) defines group
who read literary
texts showed improvement in
vocabulary and reading. According to Erkaya (2005) reading literary text can
lead student to be critical thinker. He points out that when students read they
interact with the text and interpret what they read and this analysis makes
them to be more creative and critical. Young (1996: 90) discussed two
advantages of using short stories for
raising critical thinking in students as the following: "because they are
entertaining, students' pervasive apprehension is reduced, and they learn from
the beginning that critical thinking is natural, familiar, and sometimes even
fun. Second, the stories put issues of
critical thinking in
an easily remembered
context.
According to
Erkaya (2005) short
stories motivate students to
continue reading so that they
can solve the
problem. And since
it is interesting
for students they would
not easily get
frustrated.
Hismanoglu
(2005) listed the
following advantages for pedagogical advantages of short stories
over other literary texts:
1. Short stories makes the students’ reading task easier because it is simple and short
2. Give learners a better view of other people and other cultures
3. Requires more attention and analysis
4. offers a fictional and interesting world
5. Helps students to be more creative and raise the critical thinking skills
6. Raise cultural awareness,
7. Reduce students anxiety and helps them feel more relax
8. Is good for multicultural contexts because of its universal language
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