TEACHER’S AND STUDENTS’ VIEWS ON THE PRE-PRODUCED STORYBOOK

Children nowadays who live in the globalization era are addicted to gadgets. It cannot be denied that gadgets take an important role in children‟s lives as the defining factor of psychological development. Children who use gadgets excessively tend to be selfish and ignore their social-environment. Consequently, the use of gadgets makes a gap relationship between adults and children. The writer sees that issue as a challenge to make product which can foster relationship between adults and children. The writer decided to produce children storybook and introduce students how to read aloud through children storybook using shared-reading method. The aim of the study is to find out the students‟ and teacher‟s views are on the writer‟s product. This research used mixed method, which combined quantitative and qualitative method. The instruments used in this research are; close-ended questionnaire (quantitative) and interview (qualitative). The respondent of this research were third graders in an elementary school and an English teacher in an elementary school. The result of this research revealed that both teacher‟s and students‟ views on the writer‟s product are very positive. Both the teacher and students agreed that using the storybook as a medium for language learning brought positive impacts in reading aloud. Keywords: Children Storybook, Reading Aloud, Opinion