THE ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ ABILITY OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY IN UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH POEM

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Abstract

The goal of this research was to describe the second year students’ ability in understanding English poem at English Department at Bung Hatta University. The design of the research was descriptive in nature. The population of this research was the second year students of English Department of Bung Hatta University. The total number of population members was 97.The researcher used cluster random sampling technique to select the sample and the total number of sample was 56; class B (30 students) was as the class for tryout test, and class C (26 students) was as the class for real test. To make the test become reliable, the researcher used split – half method. The result of the test was reliable with coefficient correlation .84. It was categorized as very high correlation. Then the test was valid in term of content validity because it has covered all materials which students had learned. Generally, the result of data analysis showedthat the students’ ability in Understanding English poem was moderate. Based on the result above, the researcher suggests the lecturer to introduce many kinds of poem to the students, guide them to understand it and ask them to do some exercices in order to they understand the general meaning, detailed meaning, theme, poet’s intension, and poetic devices in English poem. The researcher suggests that the students should listen and read many English poems and try to enjoy learning it.

Key words: Ability, Understanding,Poetry, Poem.