International Journal of Active Learning
Vol 1, No 1 (2016): April 2016

Students’ Errors in Reading Indonesian Poetry “Aku” (I) in Terms of Articulation and Stressing–Intonation




Article Info

Publish Date
05 Nov 2016

Abstract

Reading poetry aloud needs special skills, i.e articulating, stressing, and intonating skills, so that the poetry meaning can be well understood by listeners. Those skills must be trained to Indonesian primary student for achieving competencies standard in learning Indonesian poetry. This research aims to describe the students’ common errors in reading a famous Indonesian poetry entitled “Aku” by Chairil Anwar. This study was conducted to 120 primary students in Lampung Province, Indonesia which has been randomly chosen by using stratified random sampling technique. The result showed that most of students have low skills in reading poetry as indicated by high percentage of students doing errors. Error in articulating was mainly caused by different student dialect, meanwhile error in stressing–intonation were affected by low ability in interpreting poetry and their tendency in reading with spesific pattern. This findings can be used as a reference to evaluate student skills in reading Indonesian poetry. How to CiteSurastina, S. (2016). Students’ Errors in Reading Indonesian Poetry “Aku” (I) in Terms of Articulation and Stressing–Intonation. International Journal of Active Learning, 1(1). 

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Journal Info

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ijal

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Subject

Education

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International Journal of Active Learning p-ISSN 2528-505X | e-ISSN 2615-6377 is an international, refereed publication for all those who teach and support learning in Higher Education and those who undertake or use research into effective learning, teaching and assessment in universities and ...