STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ROBERT FROST’ POETRY IN WRITING CLASS AT MUSAMUS UNIVERSITY

Abstract

This study investigated the students’ perceptions concerning the use of Robert Frost’s poetry in writing class at English Literature Department of Musamus University which was obtained through a survey. A total of 17 undergraduate students taking writing class participated in this study. The participants responded to a questionnaire and an open-ended questions concerning the two focal points: (1) how the students perceived the use of Robert Frost’s poetry in teaching writing, (2) the implementation of Frost’s poetry in improving students’ writing short story. The results of the study revealed that the implementation of Frost’s poetry helped them to be easier in writing short story. Most of the participants gave positive response to the use of Frost’s poetry in teaching them to write a short story. In addition, they seemed to prefer learning writing short story by using English poetry in writing classes. The concluding discussion addresses suggestion about the need to consider students’ wants and needs by gauging their perceptions as the student evaluation of teaching in order to keep up the better improvement to the teaching writing the texts and the using of authentic material or media in English Literature Department at Musamus University.