Revealing Students’ Reading Practice in English Language Department

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200427.045How to use a DOI?

Keywords

reading practice, reading, reading practice in language department

Abstract

The title of this paper is “ Revealing Students’ Reading Practice In English Language Department”. This research about an analysis on exploring EFL students reading practice especially for students of English Department at State Islamic University of Sunan Ampel Surabaya. From this research the objective are to know reading quality of the participants and the reason of reading. It can be useful for the lecture who teach at PBI UINSA. Lecturers will know how the reading quality of students and what they often read will affect the performance of students in the classroom. The research method used is descriptive qualitative and how to analyze the data of this research is using descriptive statistic. As a usual descriptive statistic in the data collection to identity the data and other form and also to know frequency counts were tabulated and converted to percentages. The instrument of the research is questionnaire,it used to explore the reading practice and the reading quality of English Department students. The respondents of this research are 70 students from English Teacher Education Department at State Islamic University of Sunan Ampel Surabaya. There are 51 Female and 19 Male. These students are from all semester in English Teacher Education Department. The result of this research shows that most of students prefer to read using Indonesian. They prefer to read any sources when they have free time. Based on the data, the most media that usually used by the participants is Smartphone. The participants argue that reading using English can improve their skill in English. In fact, most of participants prefer to read using Indonesian rather than English.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Mukhlisah
AU  - Futuchi A. Wildan
AU  - Wilda Shofiarita
AU  - Amrullah Y. Karim
AU  - F.P Ayuningtyas
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/01
TI  - Revealing Students’ Reading Practice in English Language Department
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICONELT 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 231
EP  - 234
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200427.045
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200427.045
ID  - 2020
ER  -