Short Story as a Media
Gerlach and Elly (1980: 254-255), to select appropriate media, the teacher must consider the characteristics of the students,
which directly related to the learning
process such as verbal abilities, visual and audio perception skills,
experience, intelligence, motivation, personality, and social skills. Other
factors which teacher also ought to consider in media selection come from the instructional system model,
that is the organization of groups, the time available and the space in which
media will be used.
Murcia
(2001:461) defines short story as media, a short story are tools or
physical things used by the teacher to motivate the students by
bringing a slice of real life into the
classroom and by presenting language in its
more complete communication complex.
Harmer
(2001: 134) states “Media or teaching aids is used by language teachers to
explain language meaning and construction, engage students in topic or as the
basis of whole activity.”Short story as considered, as interesting media for
the students has been familiar with them. However, teacher should use many
kinds of media besides short story changeably to vary the teaching-learning
situation.
Short
story motivate students to improve their interest in reading since they will
find out that English reading materials are not always complicated, boring,
monotonous, and discussing uninteresting
matters only. It is expected that students will find out that they can learn
English through many sources that they like. By using short stories as teaching
media, hopefully, the students will improve their reading comprehension, which
finally will help them to master English well.
