Problems Faced by English Department Students of Satya Wacana Christian University in Integrated Course

Abstract

Integrated Course (IC) is one of the courses offered for English Department students of Satya Wacana Christian University in the first year. This course covers some English skills: reading, speaking, writing and other language components such as grammar and vocabu lary. Every year there are some students who failed in this course. The aim of this study is to describe the problems faced by the students in IC. There were thirty two students from IC class selected as the participants. The data were collected through a close-ended questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. The result of this study shows that problem s they have in learning grammar, difficulty in grammar application in speaking and difficulty in finding the new words when reading English texts.