Tarling (Jun 2024)
Designing Introduction to Literature Syllabus based on English Department Students’ Needs of UIN Prof. K.H. Saifuddin Zuhri Purwokerto
Abstract
Students' needs analysis is generally used for collecting and assessing information relevant to course design to establish how the course will be conducted and what is the course about by obtaining the information related to the students’ needs. It comprises the teaching materials, the teaching methodology or approaches, the task design, and the evaluation process as a continuous process in which the whole teaching and learning process is being assessed and evaluated to fit the existing course with the students’ needs that always changing to establish an effective course. This research employed descriptive qualitative research to analyze the students’ needs related to Introduction to literature course at English Education Study Program of UIN Prof.K.H. Saifuddin Zuhri Purwokerto. The subject of this research was the third-semester students as much as 127 students. The data were collected through questionnaires and interviews. The questionnaires were designed to find out the students' interest related to English literature, meanwhile in-depth interview was used to confirm and get more information related to students’ needs. The result from the present needs analysis which was related to students’ prior knowledge of the course shows that the students were mistaken the term literature with the text used as reference for academic writing and that they are already familiar with reading literary text which was dominated by novels and short story in Bahasa Indonesia. Meanwhile, the target needs analysis shows that most of the students agreed that learning English literature is important. The result of learner needs analysis shows that the students want to learn some materials in English literature with specific task and project.
