Literary Appreciation In Literature

In a literary work, there are some aspects that should be discussed and learnt, including the ability to appreciate. Appreciation is the manifestation of human’s feeling to value an art work. This fact indicates that appreciation is a process that cannot be separated from human’s life. In daily life, we have often found and enjoyed many kinds of literary work, such as drama, movie, poetry, and so forth. In the education context, the appreciation activity can be implemented both inside and outside of the classroom. The appreciation activity in classroom is usually implemented through criticizing activity both orally and written. According to Sobandi (2008: 2) “Appreciation is an individual mental activity to criticize an art work.” It means

Basically, most of the students are interested to be involved in the activity of appreciating a literary work, however, some results of their works show that they need some more interesting and attractive instructional media in the process of learning. It can be said that to some parts of literary works the students should be introduced to some media of electronic, such as: movie, DVD, VCD. Therefore, this research attempted to apply a new medium in their literary class, which is a movie. This research focused on how the students’ ability in order to appreciate a movie. Metz (1971) explains that “a movie is a particular movie message which has its own beginning and ending, and movie in general designates one or more specific messages proper to all movies”. In teaching and learning process, the using of movie as instructional media can give a motivation and create a new situation in classroom. Not all of movie is suitable for instructional media; the teacher should be able to select which movie is suitable for the students at senior high school. Through the using of the good movie, the students are expected to achieve their motivation in learning

i.e., (1) How are the student’s appreciations in movie “3 idiot” toward the theme, plot, and character? (2) What are the aspects that influence the student’s appreciation toward the movie “3 idiot”? (3) What are the differences of student’s emotional aspects that influence their appreciations?

According to the problem statement, there are two objectives of this study. They are: (1) To find out how the student’s appreciation in a movie “3 idiot” toward the theme, plot and character and (2) To find out the aspects that influences the student’s appreciation toward the movie “3 idiot”.

This study is expected to be beneficial for the students and teachers. The significances are (1) Students can give the good appreciations toward someone’s artwork, especially movie, (2) Students will develop and apply their literary criticism skills in class discussions, (3) Teachers can see the ability of students in appreciating the literary work, especially movie, (4) Students have become accustomed in listening English conversation so they can explore their listening skill, (5) Students will be able to make a writing with chronological order, so they can improve their writing skill, and (5) Student will be able to read the text of the movie in English and it can expand their ability in