STUDENTS’ EXTENSIVE READING IN INTERPRETING ENGLISH CLASSICAL SONNETS (A Case Study at the Fourth Semester Students of English Education Study Program of IAIN Bengkulu in Academic Year 2017/2018)

Nasution, Putri Lestari (2018) STUDENTS’ EXTENSIVE READING IN INTERPRETING ENGLISH CLASSICAL SONNETS (A Case Study at the Fourth Semester Students of English Education Study Program of IAIN Bengkulu in Academic Year 2017/2018). Diploma thesis, UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu.

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Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the students’ ability in interpretation English classical sonnets especially in comprehending and interpreting the theme and issue based on their historical age at the fourth semester students of English Education Study Program of IAIN Bengkulu in academic year 2017/2018. It applied descriptive method (A Case Study). The source of data in this research were the result of the fourth semester students’ written reports in comprehending and interpreting English classical sonnets in Prose and Poetry Class in Class IVA of English Education Program of IAIN Bengkulu in academic year 2017/2018 that consisted of 33 students. Then, it also explored the process of teaching and learning sonnet in the classroom as source of the data. The data were collected by recording, noting, interviewing, giving test, and sheet collecting. The result of this research showed that the students’ process of teaching and learning sonnet in the classroom can encourage them to read, analysis, comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and create poetries. The fourth semester students of English education study program of IAIN Bengkulu in academic year 2017/2018 were excellent at identifying structure and very good at comprehension level of sonnet. However, they failed in the activities for interpretation. It happened because of some factors, namely: the students were lack of knowledge about historical background, social background, and repertoire of poetry/sonnet reading at the same age of the Romantic Age where the sonnet entitled ―London, 1802‖ was written by William Wordsworth; and the students were not familiar in applying complicated procedures of interpreting literary works, especially sonnet.

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