Students’ Perspectives Toward The Use of Diary As Learning Strategy in English Literary Criticism Subject

Abstract

This study is aimed to elaborate the students’ perspectives toward the use of diary as learning strategy in English Literary CriticismSubject of English Department, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo. The participants of this research are the students of class D that consist of 22 students at the 6th semester in academic year of 2018/2019. Using a qualitative method, the data were obtained fromsemi structure interview. This study also used Braun and Clarke theory as the technique of analyzing the data. Therefore, questions of interview were adapted and developed from Patton As a result of this research, the students believed that the use of diary can help them in teaching and learning process. Instead of impacting students, this strategy also indirectly provides benefits for the lecturers in the classroom. It is suggested to use a diary for instructional purposes as it can help students in developing their own learning processes and strategies. Besides, the strategy also has some negative impact, such as the lack of understanding new material which makes it difficult for students to learn independently and also some of the students only copied the diary fromtheir friends without discovering and reading the books by themselves. Therefore, the role of the lecturers is very important in the classroom to examine what they have written, to clarify and explain again the materials that are still confusing for the students.