Abstract:
ABSTRACT
This research is to investigate how EFL college students response in
enjoying short stories by using Wattpad and to find out how their perception and
experiences in enjoying short stories by means reading Wattpad. As interest in
literacy activities, EFL college students’ choose Wattpad as an application to read
short stories, Wattpad is a fairly popular and efficient application for reading short
stories and can provide comments directly within the short story paragraphs and
Wattpad has many advantages in promoting reader-response theory to EFL college
students’ .This case study was conducted to the college students and 40 students.
Three instruments covering the observation, the interview, and the questionnaire
were chosen to gain the data. It was concluded that there is the positive feedback of
using Wattpad as a media to learning literature similar to those previous studies,
this research also focuses on Wattpad as a media to learning literature.