Shera Z. Hutabarat : The Interest Of English Students Of Faculty Of Letters, In The University Of Sumatera Utara In Reading Literary Works, 2009.
In English Department, literary works are the object that must be studied by the students. One of the aims of this Department is to teach the students how to
analyze the literary works. English Department in University of Sumatera Utara offers two kinds of concentrate mainly linguistics and literature. Linguistics deals
with morphology, semantic, syntax, phonology, and pragmatic. Whereas literary deals with prose, play, and poetry.
Reading is one of the important things to support the study, especially for English Department students who have to study literary works. All literary works
have messages for the readers such as moral lessons. So, the students have to able to comprehend its meaning to get the messages. Besides, they learn the style, the
beauty of language, the history and the social condition that happened when the literary works were created. By analyzing the literary works, they also can add
their knowledge, enrich vocabularies, and teach the students to think critically. That is the reason why I want to do a research to find out the interest of
English Department students in University of Sumatera Utara in reading literary works and the factors that influence them to read literary works.
1.2 Statement of Problems
The students who take literature are less than the students who take linguistics. For example, the class of 2004 only has 10 students and the class of
2005 also only 8 students who took the literature. Therefore, linguistics is taken by most of the students of English Department. It creates an assumption that
English Department students are not interested in reading or knowing literary works. They are only interested in learning about language and improving their
Shera Z. Hutabarat : The Interest Of English Students Of Faculty Of Letters, In The University Of Sumatera Utara In Reading Literary Works, 2009.
skill in speaking English. Basically, the students of Faculty of Letters are supposed to know and understand many literary works. Because one of the aims
of this Faculty is to teach the students to be able to analyze literary works. To find out the facts about the interest of English Department students in
reading literary works, there are some questions that need to be explained. The questions can be formulated as follow:
1. How is the interest of English Department students in Faculty of Letters
University of Sumatera Utara in reading literary works? 2.
What are the factors that influence the students to read literary works?
1.3 Objectives of Research
The objective of the research tends to answer the problem of research. Based on the problems above, the purpose of this research mainly:
1. To identify the interest of English Department students in reading literary
works. 2.
To find out the factors that influences the students to read literary works.
1.4 Scope of Research
There are some ways to prove that literary works and society have close connection. In this thesis I limit the scope of the research only on the students of
English Department students in University of Sumatera Utara as my correspondence to identify the member of students who are interested in reading
literary works.
Shera Z. Hutabarat : The Interest Of English Students Of Faculty Of Letters, In The University Of Sumatera Utara In Reading Literary Works, 2009.
I limit the scope of the research only to know the interest of English Department students in reading literary works. I do not analyze about the ability
or the ways of students in analyzing the literary works.
1.5 Significance of Research
