One of my greatest joys is reading novels. Science fiction and action are two of my favorite novel genres.The fun part of reading a novel is when we can imagine an exciting storyline in our heads. We imagine various things in the novel. Whether it's visualizing the characters' faces, the setting, or different events, and so on. Furthermore, reading a novel is the same as gaining a new perspective. We can gain a better understanding of something by looking at it from a certain perspective. It can help us develop our critical thinking abilities. Another thing I've done is read English stories. It is complicated at first, since we must exert more effort because we must simultaneously translate the meaning and comprehend the plot. But, over time, I grew accustomed to it and began to enjoy it. When I'm reading English stories, I often make notes of unfamiliar vocabulary and look it up in the dictionary. Reading English stories can, of course, develop your reading skills, help you understand different grammar rules, and indirectly will also improve our writing skills.
Stories are the universal way to teach children their mother tongue. Through stories, students can learn words, phrases, pronunciation and grammar structures by interlacing them with characters, illustration and make believe in the world. By reading stories, the children can understand big ideas from a little bit of text. Stories are literary works that explore the concept of beyond reality. Literature can helps students to understand another culture (Lazar, 2009. p.15). Through stories, students can learn many cultures. Stories have many benefits for students, such as, they allow children to work on reading, speaking, listening and listening at the same time. Stories make learning English more enjoyable and also attractive for the student. In addition, teachers may use stories to teach literary, cultural, and higher-order thinking skills. Through stories, students can improve their vocabulary and reading skills.
I have an idea of using short stories for English classroom learning in Junior Highschool. Here are the steps: First, the teacher frees students to search for various English stories and they read the stories. Second, the class is divided into 2 groups. For example, in one class there are 20 people. Every child looks for 2 vocabs which is difficult, so per group there are 20 vocabs which are difficult. Third, students look for difficult vocab definitions in the dictionary. Fourth, they exchange vocab between groups 1 and 2. Students must understand vocab from other groups. The next step is that the two groups make a line facing the blackboard. The teacher will say the definition of the vocab, then the children from each group have to write the name of the vocab on the whiteboard and have to hurry up because the first one to write will get points. Through this game, students will get several benefits for understanding vocabulary. After the students finish the game, they make their own short stories using difficult vocab. Vocabulary is an important aspect of English language learning (Nazara, 2019). Students will struggle to communicate in English if they do not have a good vocabulary. Through this game, students will gain new knowledge about various vocabulary. After learning and practicing new vocabulary, students have the opportunity to use language in a non-stressful way (Uberman,1998). Vocabulary games used in the classroom are very effective and supportive activities in contributing to students' language skills and proficiency.
References :
Sooriyarachchi, J. (2006). The Witch’s Daughter. Tikiri Publisher
McEwen, J. (2011). The Lost Egg.
Nazara, P. (2019). Learning Vocabularies Using Short Stories at Primary School: Students’ Perception. JET (Journal of English Teaching), 5(3), 157–165. https://doi.org/10.33541/jet.v5i3.1308
Uberman, A. (1998). The Use of Games: for Vocabulary Presentation and Revision. English Teaching Forum 36 (1): 20. Retrieved from http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/vols/vol36/no1/p20.html
Lazar, G. (2009). Literature and Language Teaching: A guide for teachers and trainers. Cambridge University Press.
Best Regards,
Ramadhani Widita Andini Pratinawang (195110507111004)
Literature in ELT B
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