eprintid: 9449 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 48 dir: disk0/00/00/94/49 datestamp: 2025-03-21 03:19:52 lastmod: 2025-03-21 03:19:52 status_changed: 2025-03-21 03:19:52 type: thesis metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Rizky, Rizky Regina DL creators_NPM: 0311 16 029 contributors_name: Istiqlaliah, Nurul Hidayati contributors_name: Asih, Wahyuni contributors_NIDN: 0415128202 contributors_NIDN: 0423088304 corp_creators: Universitas Pakuan corp_creators: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan corp_creators: pendidikan Bahasa Inggris title: STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS READING SHORT STORY ( A Study Conducted to 6th semester of English Language Education Study Program in Pakuan University ) ispublished: pub divisions: Pro_PBEN full_text_status: public abstract: vi ABSTRACT Attitude can be defined as a student's response to people, places, things, or events in life. In addition, the selected material, such as a short story, can be one of the resources that help the teacher in building students’ attitudes towards reading text. This research discussed about students' attitudes toward reading a short story. The research aims to determine students’ attitudes toward reading a short story. The attitude in this research is defined as three components: affective, cognitive, and behavior attitude. Furthermore, the participants of this research were sixth-semester students of the English Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Educational Sciences-Pakuan University. The research applied a qualitative study method and descriptive analysis technique. The instruments used in this research were; a questionnaire, documentation, and interview. The result showed in affective components that students felt relaxed when they read the short story. It was represented by students' positive responses. Then, in cognitive attitude reading short story, the use of short stories made students knowledgeable in terms of gaining vocabulary enrichment. Short story influences students to have a positive attitude while learning English. It showed that in behavior attitude that students have positive reading habits. The findings of the study showed that students generally had positive attitudes, becoming interested and motivated in reading text, encouraging students to read more and making them curious to read short story. Keywords: Attitude, Literary Text, Reading, Short Story date: 2022-11-09 date_type: published institution: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan department: Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris thesis_type: Skripsi thesis_name: Sarjana citation: Rizky, Rizky Regina DL (2022) STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS READING SHORT STORY ( A Study Conducted to 6th semester of English Language Education Study Program in Pakuan University ). Skripsi thesis, Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan. document_url: http://eprints.unpak.ac.id/9449/1/Skripsi%20Rizky%20Regina%20031116029.pdf