An Analysis of Students’ Difficulties In Learning Intensive Course at The First Semester Students of State Islamic Institute of Bukittinggi Academic Years 2019/2020

Faren, Rosalina and Loli, Safitri (2021) An Analysis of Students’ Difficulties In Learning Intensive Course at The First Semester Students of State Islamic Institute of Bukittinggi Academic Years 2019/2020. Indonesian Journal of Learning Studies, 1 (1). pp. 72-80. ISSN 2775-5231

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Abstract

The background of this research was based on the difficulties that students faced in intensive learning courses in the first semester of English Education Students of State Islamic Institute of Bukittinggi Academic Years 2019/2020. n. The purpose of the research was as follows to find out how many the difficulties face by the first semester students of English Department IAIN Bukittinggi inthe learning-intensive course. This research used a descriptive quantitative research. The sample of this research were the first semester students at English Department (PBI) year 2019. There were four classes on the first semester students of Islamic states of Bukittinggi (IAIN). The researcher uses purposive sampling as a sampling technique, and the sample was 71 students of first semesterstudents. It was concluded that 61,44% of the students had difficulties in listening. 52,96% the students had difficulties in speaking. 62,75% of the students had difficulties in reading. Lastly, 51,11% of the students had difficulties in writing. Furthermore, unknown pronunciation and accent still made most of them feel difficult in the listening process. Most of the informants felt difficult to speak since they don’t know what to say or they have limited ideas of the topic that were being spoken which made them rather quiet or just only speak a little. Most of the informants feel difficult in reading because of limited vocabulary they possess, unfamiliar topics, different text levels, and they can’t or lack strategy in remembering the important information about the text they just read. Lastly, grammar, conjunction, and vocabulary are the most things that complicated the informants in writing.

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