Literary Appreciation: Media Implanted Character Values to High School Students

DOI

10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.60How to use a DOI?

Keywords

literary works, appreciation, characters, values, students

Abstract

Some of learning literature objectives are to widen insight, to refine characters, and to improve knowledge and language skills, to appreciate and proud literary works as cultural treasures and Indonesian Intellect. In line with that, this study covers literary studies including understanding to literature and aesthetic introduced to students in secondary schools. This article describes overview and understanding about literary appreciation activity to educate character values to the students. Furthermore, students regular class during literary appreciation activities are observed. Results show that from three short stories (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Great Expectation by Charles Dickens, and My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell) secondary students are interest to study social context they find everyday. The background of the three stories however is social life of middle class people, therefore it is easy to meet narration conformity to students real life. In addition, they also learn to identify characterization through characters and their behaviors in society. Reader students moreover identified and applied values to their own characters. Through this activity, students enable to learn and adopt characters value reflected in stories they appreciate. The activity also motivated and supported students cognitive development. Their personalities are automatically formed well when they enable to express emotion and show empathy to other people.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Prayudias Margawati
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - Literary Appreciation: Media Implanted Character Values to High School Students
BT  - Proceedings of the UNNES International Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation (ELTLT 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 309
EP  - 313
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.60
DO  - 10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.60
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