Tentang Students’ Perception on Weekly Report in English Education Department

Writing is a higher-order skill that develops over time through interactions among students’ skills and cognitive resources, the instructional context, and the demands of the writing task. The weekly report becomes one of the strategies that lecturers used in the learning process. This paper examines students’ perception towards the implementation of weekly report as part of learning. The objectives of the study were to find out students’ perception and kind of obstacles in writing a report weekly. The subject of this study was the students (n = 196) of the sixth semester of English Education Department in UIN Ar-Raniry who were already passed three writing subjects before which faced weekly report assignment. This study adopted quantitative descriptive research. For gaining the data, this study used rating scale questionnaire on google form filled in with close-ended questionnaire. All the data were analyzed by grouping the answers, exporting, and presenting the result as a bar chart. The findings showed that students who face the weekly report are motivated by it, in writing, and reporting the learning material. Yet, the obstacle faced that weekly report has been forced them to memorize the material. Overall, based on the analysis of the questionnaire, most of the students gave positive response in doing weekly report.