Fairy Tale Form Spoken to Written in the Perspective of Readingless Teenager

— Fairy tales are imaginary stories that are not bound by place and time told for generations. This research aims to describe of teenager aged 13-15 years in Magelang on the elements of plot, character, style, and theme fairy tale “Burung-burung Memilih Raja” and the affecting factors that influence their response to this fairy tale. It is a method of concurrent embed model combination. The research subjects are the grade VIII students in one learning group of the four schools in Magelang. The data source is the fairy tale entitled “Burung-burung Memilih Raja” retold by Nukila Amal, the result of the response to this fairy tale, and the factors that influence the responses. The research data was obtained through questionnaires. The data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The results show that in one side, the fairy tale “Burung-burung Memilih Raja” got the positive responses from the readers. But, in the other hand there are contradictions to these results. Internal factors consist of limited literary reading experience and limited experience of hearing or watching fairy tales. External factors consist of motivation from parents to read literature, the influence of friends who are not accustomed to read literature, and the influence of television and social media.