THE EFFECT OF READING SHORT STORY TO STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY

MASTERY
MINI PROPOSAL

Submitted to Complete the Submission of the title of thesis in English Educational

Department

Written By :
NUR WAHIDA PUTRI
Reg. Number : 1820300090

ENGLISH EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT

Advisor I Advisor II

Drs. Fitriadi Lubis, M.Pd. Sri Minda, M.Hum.

NIP. 196209171992031002 NIDN. 2018018801

TARBIYAH AND TEACHER TRAINING FACULTY

STATE INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC STUDIES
PADANGSIDIMPUAN
2021
 THE EFFECT OF READING SHORT STORY TO STUDENTS VOCABULARY
MASTERY
A. Background of The Problem
Vocabulary is the important thing in teaching English to improve the mastery of four
language skills, they are reading, listening, speaking and writing. According to Richard
and Rodgers “Vocabulary is one of the important elements of language proficiency that
becomes the basis of how well learners speak, write, listen and read. In the past,
vocabulary teaching and learning were often given little priority in second language
programs”.1
The english teacher has a big role in ensuring Indonesian students to mastering
English as their foreign language. In reality, english vocabulary mastery has become a
challenging for most of students in Indonesia. Teacher’s role in applying interesting
subject and create is one of the important factors in making a good impression in the
classroom activities.2 The students can express their ideas,, creativirty, emotions, desires
and thought to someone, if they have much vocabularies.
In the other hand, the students will find it difficult to use English in their daily
activities, like watching English program, listening to the radio, reading English book,,
newspaper, magazine, novel, short story and others without understanding the meaning
of words. Though, some difficulties are faced by the students in understanding the
material, the students are still a lack of vocabulary, therefore they always find difficulties
in understanding and explaining the material.3
Reading is an activity that someone do, to get the information from the media, like
newspapers, books, articles, journals and others. Reading is one of the skills that must be
mastered by students. Reading is a very interesting learning activity if the text that is
read can attract the reader.
Short story is story that talks about author’s expression or imagination to anything
about life experience. As we know, story becomes an interesting thing for students to
read and talk. The function of story is to entertain and to enrich mental experience of the
reader. By reading stories, the students can enrich their vocabulary in an interesting way

1
J.C. Richard and T.S. Rodgers (2001), “Approaches and Methods in Language
Teaching”, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Medina, Uzanne L, MEXTESOL Journal, Vol. 26
No. 1(2003), 17.
2
Sulaeha, Kamsinah and Muhammad Jabal Annur, “USING SHORT STORY IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’
VERBAL VOCABULARY MASTERY”, Elites Journal, Vol. 2 No. 1,(2020) 37.
3
Sulfikar, Sulfikar and Salija, Kisman and Weda, Sukardi, “Improving Students’ Vocabulary Achievement
through Short Story”, eprints repasitory software Universitas Negeri Makassar, (2019), 03.
 because they study the vocabulary while enjoying the stories. 4 Therefore, short story may
make the students motivation to improve their vocabulary in order to understand the
whole story.
Reading a story has been recognized as an effective educational strategy. When the
student read a story and they find the new word, they will search the meaning of the text
from dictionary or ask the teacher or may be their friends. It can increase their
vocabulary mastery.
For this reason, this study concerns on students’ vocabulary mastery that is taught by
reading short story. This research is actually on belief that reading short story provides
them with an authentic material and enables them to gain various types of words through
reading.
B. Formulation of The Problem
The formulation of the research, such following :
1. How is the students’ vocabulary mastery before reading short story?
2. How is the students’ vocabulary mastery before reading short story?
3. Is there any significant effect of reading short story to students’ vocabulary mastery?

C. Purpose of The Research

Based on the formulation of the problem, the purpose of this research are :
1. To examine the students’ vocabulary mastery before reading short story
2. To examine the students’ vocabulary mastery after reading short story
3. To examine wheter there is significant effect of reading short story to students’
vocabulary mastery or not.
D. Significances of The Research
The result of this research is expected to give some benefits for the teachers, the
students and the other researchers. The signfances are :
1. For the teachers : it gives them some information about the effect of using short story
to students’ vocabulary mastery. They can use this technique to test their students’
vocabulary mastery
2. For the students’ : it inform the students’ that we can use the technique of reading
short stories to test how much vocabulary has been mastered

4
Hendrikus, Male, “PROCEEDING English Education Department Collegiate Forum (EED CF) 2015-
2018 EFL Theory and Practice: Voice of EED UKI”, Jakarta : UKI Pers, (2019), 104.
 3. For the researchers : as an additional reference for the researcher who is interested in
research about reading and vocabulary
E. Hypothesis
There is the significant effect of reading short story to students’ vocabulary mastery .
F. Research Metodh
1. Type of Research
In this research, the researcher use Quantative Research dan Classroom Action
Research (CAR).
2. Research Design
 First, the students’ interest was incited by telling them one or two unique feature
of the story to read.
 Second, the text of the story was distributed to each student who should read
and discuss it in a group. First, the students read the story once or twice
individually. Then everyone underlined every unfamiliar words or expression.
 After that, the students work in the group to discuss the meaning of each
underlined unfamiliar word and practice how to pronounce them, during which
the researcher moved from one group to another to provide help in case the
students needed one.
 Finishing the discussion and pronunciation practice, representing his group, a
member of each group read the story aloud to the classroom and another one
told what the story about.
3. Participants of The Research
The participants of this research is the students in SMP N 4 Padangsidimpuan at
grade VIII.
4. Intrument of The Research
In this research, the researcher will use three instruments they are :
1. Test (Pre and Post-test)
2. Questionnaire
3. Observation
The data was collected using test and non-test techniques. The test was a pre and
post-test used to measure the vocabulary mastery of the participants. The pre-test
was administered before the action, while the first post-test was conducted at the end
of meeting 1, and posttest II at the end of meeting 2.
 The non-test is a questionnaire and observation sheet. The questionnaire was
used to collect data concerning the response of the students of the use of story
reading technique.
The questionnaire was administered three times, before the action research and
at the end of both meeting. The observation sheet was used by a collaborator to
record the actions. All of the gained data were analyzed employing the descriptive
analysis technique. The success indicator of this action research was the participants’
achieving of the mean score.
Every tests consisted of 25 vocabulary questions designed in three types:
1. identifying word
2. word selection
3. matching.
G. References

Male, Hendrikus. 2019. PROCEEDING English Education Department Collegiate

Forum (EED CF) 2015-2018 “EFL Theory and Practice: Voice of EED UKI”. Jakarta :
UKI Pers.

Richard, J.C. and Rodgers, T.S. (2001). Approaches and Methods in Language
Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Medina, Uzanne L. MEXTESOL Journal. Vol. 26 No. 1.
http://www.mextesol.net/journal/public/files/551f8b495c20105864028bfa5cdbb132.pdf

Sulaeha, Kamsinah and Annur, Muhammad Jabal. 2020. USING SHORT STORY IN
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VERBAL VOCABULARY MASTERY. 2020. Elites Journal,
Vol. 2 No. 1. http://journal.uin-alauddin.ac.id/index.php/elties/article/view/11470

Sulfikar, dkk. 2019. Improving Students’ Vocabulary Achievement through Short Story.
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THE USE OF SHORT CONVERSATION IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING
ABILITY
A. Latar Belakang
Speaking is one of the most important skills that must be mastered by students if
they want to be proficient in English. Speaking is an activity that can be done by one
person or monologue and also betweet one person and other or more people. Many
students lack confidence when speaking in public. This is wrong simply because of a
lack of practice and they have no friend to practice their speaking. Another reason is that
students have little vocabulary, so they find it difficult to express what they want to
convey.
Short conversation is a short text that contains a conversation between two or
more people. Short conversations are easier to understand and remember because the
words used are common words and are related to daily life. Therefore, short conversation
may make the students motivation to improve their speaking ability.
For this reason, this research concerns on students’ speaking ability that is taught
by using short conversation.
B. Rumusan masalah
1. To what extent is the improvement of students’ speaking ability by using short
conversation ?
2. Is there any significant improvement of the students’ speaking ability by using short
story ?
3. How is the teacher’s effort to solve the students’ problem in speaking ability ?
C. Tujuan Penelitian
1. To examine the extent of the students’ speaking ability by using short converssation
2. To examine wheter there is significant improvement of the students’ speaking ability
by using short conversation
3. To explore the teacher’s effort to solve the students’ problem in speaking ability
D. Hipotesis
There is the significant improvement of students’ speaking ability by using short
conversation
E. Metode Penelitian
Metode Kuantitatif dan Classroom Action Research
F. Variabel Penelitian
1. Short Conversation
 2. Speaking Ability
G. Rencana Instrument
1. Observation
2. Test Lisan
H. Rencana Daftar Pustaka
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https://journal.ummat.ac.id/index.php/paedagoria/article/view/58. 27 Juni 2021
Manurung, Konder dan Nurrul Cikal Anugraini. 2020. Paedagoria : Jurnal Kajian,
Penelitian dan Pengembangan Kependidikan. Vol. 8 No. 1.
http://jurnal.untad.ac.id/jurnal/index.php/ELTS/article/view/15771. 27 Juni 2021

Siregar, Kesuma Siregar. 2019. English Education: English Journal for Teaching and
Learning. Vol. 7 No. 1.
http://jurnal.iain-padangsidimpuan.ac.id/index.php/EEJ/article/view/1654