WHAT MATTER IN STUDENTS’ ANALYSING CURRENT ISSUES POSTED IN TWITTER WRITTEN IN INDONESIAN AND ENGLISH?

Abstract

Students must have good critical reading skills in order that they will be able to obtain  precise  and  accurate  information from any ICT Platform particularly Twitter. They presumably need critical reading skills. The  objectives  of  this  study  is to  investigate the  problems  faced  by  students  in their critical  reading activities when analysing  the  issue  on  Twitter both written in Indonesian and English.  The study used  quantitative  and  qualitative  approach.  The respondents are derived from thirty students of an English Education Department in Bandung who fit the determined criteria. The  instruments  to collect  data  are  critical  reading  test  and  interview. To investigate problems faced by students in their critical reading activities the researcher used the result test and interview. The result of this study shows that students critical reading skills in Indonesian written  issues are not any better than those in English written issues. What matter are their critical thinking skills. In addition, the students encounter both language related problems and non-language related problems.