THE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS TOWARD LECTURER’S INSTRUCTION IN TEACHING INTENSIVE READING

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Intensive reading is an important method in language education that aim‟s to develop student‟s ability to understand information in detail including grammatical structure. Intensive reading also train to develop understanding in sentence structure, enhance passive and active vocabulary. This research was conducted to determine students' perceptions of teacher instructions on learning intensive reading material by giving questionnaires to 41 English Department students. This research used quantitative descriptive research where the final result of this research is to evaluate the students‟ perceptions of the way the teacher delivers material about intensive reading to students who are seen from their perspective. With this research it was found that the student has a positive response toward the lecturer‟s instruction and could also follow instructions from the teacher. From the results of the questionnaire it could be seen that 80.5% of respondents agreed that the intensive reading course could increase student‟s nglish vocabulary. . Some students argued that the teachers have a fairly good performance in delivering intensive reading material in class.