AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN LEARNING INTENSIVE COURSE AT THE FIRST SEMESTER STUDENTS OF STATE ISLAMIC INSTITUTE OF BUKITTINGGI ACADEMIC YEARS 2019/2020
This research was due to discover the and analyze the difficulties that students find in the learning-intensive course at the first semester students of State Islamic Institute of Bukittinggi Academic Years 2019/2020. There, it was found some problems, they said that they do not have enough ability to learn the intensive course. the students said that they had difficulty in understanding structure and even though it has been explained many times. They said that in an intensive course, the lecturer often re-explains the material because not all students understand. This problem makes the lecturer does not have enough time in delivering news of materials. Some students said that they did not understand learning English because they had less vocabulary in English and less motivation. In addition, they said learning grammar which consists of sixteen tenses is confusing. While they are still confused about the basic tense (present, past, future), now they have to learn any other structures in the English language. This though makes them have less motivation in learning grammar, especially tenses This research used a descriptive qualitative research design. It has the purpose to describe the learning problem that students’ had. The informants of this research are first semester students at English Department (PBI) year 2019. There are 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 semester students. It was concluded that half of the informants (57,49%) still feel difficult in English language learning even after taking the intensive course. Furthermore, unknown pronunciation and accent still make most of them feel difficult in the listening process. Most of the informants feel difficult to speak since they do not 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 cannot 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.