E-Short Story in Extensive Reading: A Survey of English Education Department Students

Abstract

Extensive reading activity will give freedom to students to select their reading materials since the purpose of extensive reading is reading for pleasure. The kind of reading materials that are used in this research is the e-short story. This research is a survey of 71 students in an extensive reading class in one state university in Central Java. It describes the students' activity of the class by using the e-short story. Besides, the writer wants to represent the factorial analysis of extensive reading class by using e-story in the English education department. This research used factorial analysis in performing the data. From the result, it can be stated that from ten variables and it can be extracted into three variables of the use of technology in reading, simplicity of the e-short story, and lecturer support the use of short stories in extensive reading. The abstract needs to summarize the content of the paper.