STUDENTSÂ’ DIFFICULTIES IN READING ESP (ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES) AT TARBIYAH DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
| Main Author: | ROSYIDAH, ROSSY HALIMATUN |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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, 2013
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.umm.ac.id/27355/1/jiptummpp-gdl-rossyhalim-32152-1-introduc-n.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/27355/2/jiptummpp-gdl-rossyhalim-32152-2-chapteri.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/27355/ |
Daftar Isi:
- This study was focusing on the students’ difficulties reading comprehension in ESP and the students’ effort to solve their difficulties reading comprehension in ESP at Tarbiyah Department University of Muhammadiyah Malang. ESP is English for Specific Purposes that is the program at University of Muhammadiyah Malang to help the students to improve their knowledge especially in their field of study. The study was a descriptive with quantitative research design. The subjects of the study were the students of Tarbiyah Department in the third semester of University of Muhammadiyah Malang. They consisted of two classes; they are A and B classes. A class consists of 35 students and B class consists of 40 students. Thus, the number of all students is 75 students. The study used questionnaire to collect the data. Then, the collected data were analyzed by using percentage method, p=f/n×100% where (P: Percentage, F: Frequency answer, and N: The number of student). The result of the study shows that difficulties faced by the students in reading ESP relate to language and meta linguistic problems, phonological processing problems, word recognition problems, text- processing problems and other difficulty, such as; lecturer, and the teaching method or the instruction was not interesting. However, although it was hard, the students already had solution to solve their difficulties.