Emotional Instruments on Reading Novel using Social Media Among Indonesian Students

Abstract

Emotional reading instruments are tools to uncover variables or objects to obtain information about a person's feelings or thoughts while reading. The aim of the study was to develop a set of emotional instruments for novel readers. The research method uses product development research begun by instrument testing process to some respondents using social media in order to get the appropriate instruments in terms of the validity and reliability. The results obtained were emotional instruments reading literary works, in this case, novels, which are tested for validity and reliability, can be used to measure novel works. So, a novel reader can know his or her emotions toward the plot, characterization, point of view, background, message, and theme.