Kemampuan Siswa Kelas 9 SMPN 12 Jember dalam Menulis Cerita Pendek

Abstract

Writing short stories is one of the activities to express feelings, thoughts, and even experiences. Short story writing activities are included in Indonesian language learning for grade 9 junior high school. The 2013 Curriculum KD 4.6 contains "Expressing experiences and ideas in the form of short stories by paying attention to structure and language", so that in writing short stories it is necessary to understand the aspects of structure, language characteristics, and building elements in short stories. Based on this, it is necessary to know the students' ability in writing short stories by examining the results of students' short story texts. The purpose of this study was to determine the ability of students of 9 SMPN 12 Jember in writing short stories based on structure, language characteristics, and building elements of short stories. This study is a qualitative descriptive study with document studies. The data and data sources in this study are short story texts written by grade 9 students of SMPN 12 Jember based on structure, language characteristics, and building elements of short stories. The data collection technique in this study used a test. Based on the data obtained from this study, the average ability of grade 9 students at SMPN 12 Jember is categorized as quite capable in writing short stories based on structure, linguistic characteristics, and elements of short story construction.