Ayu Yuliani Rachmi Putri. 2021. The Students’ Perception Toward The Use of Short Story in Literature Class of English Department. Thesis. English Department. Faculty of Teacher Training and Education. Mulawarman University. Samarinda. (1) Dr. Yuni Utami Asih, M.Pd (2) Anjar Dwi Astuti, S.S., M.Hum.
This research was aimed to investigate how students perception on the use of short story in literature class. The participant of this study was 8 students of the seventh semester 2017/2018 in English Department. This research was designed as a descriptive qualitative research in which data were taken from interviews and documentation.
Findings of this study showed that students’ perception toward short story as an alternative teaching materials could be used to help the students in learning English courses. The sentences in the short story were engaging and can help students by providing clear storyline as guidance to write story. Meanwhile, short story is appropriate to solve students’ learning more about literature class. In addition, the students said that short story are interesting, funny, easy, and not monotonous as well as help them to develop more understanding about English. Furthermore, this result showed that the students had a positive perception because in this case, the students accepted and gave supports the object that is perceived.
Therefore, short story is also regarded as teaching materials that can help build new atmosphere to engage students to learn more about English courses in the classroom.