Investigating Students' Need in Developing Integrated Model of Intensive and Extensive Reading Instruction at English Education Study Program of Islamic State Institute of Bukittinggi

Abstract

Investigating the need of the students and lecturers is a part of series of reseach and development which attempted to integrate Intensive and Extensive Reading in teaching Reading at English Education Study Program. This study was aimed at identifying the need of the students in the process of teaching Reading. It focussed on problems, priorities, ability, attitude and solution as the categories of information used in need analysis. The result of need analysis were later used for task analysis, concept analysis and specifying intsructional objectives for a reading lesson. A descriptive quantitative method was employed to meet the reacearch objective. A questionare was used to collect data on students need. It involved 67 students. The research finding indicated that students have problems related to limited amount of vocabulary, limited time allocated for reading, text difficulty level, low language ability and inadequate reading strategies. Students priorities in Reading class were reading strategies on how to understand word, sentences and paragraph. Students ability and attitude towards reading indicated that they had low reading abilities, they liked reading, they believed that "reading a lot" improved their reading ability and finally, most of the students didn't do reading activities independently.