STUDENT’S RECEPTION OF NOVEL “NEGERI LIMA MENARA” FROM GENDER PERSPECTIVE

This research dealt with the students’ reception on the intellectual and emotional
domain of novel which entitled “Negeri Lima Menara” from gender perspective. The
objectives of this study were: (1) to investigate students’ reception of the novel at the
intellectual aspect from gender perspective. (2) to investigate students reception of the
novel at the emotional aspect from gender perspective. The data were obtained from
questionnaire and the source of data were 32 students 16 male and 16 female from two
classes students at second semester of language and arts faculty at state university of
Medan, By applying purposive sampling. The research design of this study applied
descriptive qualitative. The data were collected by administering questionnaire. The
results of data analysis in general were (1) Male students were more good reception in
both intellectual domain and emotional domain. Furthermore, the points of intellectual
domain (respectively-%) were Structure 40.625%, Language 43.75%, Theme 50%,
Tempo 15.625%, and the points of emotional domain (respectively-%) were Interest
43.75%, Authenticity 34.375%, the ability to belief 40.625% contained on the novel.
However, female students’ was higher in 2 points both in intellectual domain and
emotional domain. Furthermore, the two points of intellectual domain (respectively-%)
were Characterization 50%, Plot 43.75% and the 2 points of emotional domain
(respectively-%) Involvement 46.875%, Joy 43.75% contained on the novel. On the other
hand both male and female have an equal point of emotional domain (respectively-%)
they were Emotion 43.75%, but male had high score than female, male score 65
meanwhile female score 63 at the emotion point of emotional domain. Implication: male
is more rationally meanwhile female is more emotionally.