PENGEMBANGAN MATERI BAHASA UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MEMBACA TEKS DIKALANGAN MAHASISWA FAKULTAS ILMU TARBIYAH DAN KEGURUAN IAIN AMBON

Abstract

English is one of International Language and as Communication with other in the world. In Indonesia the level of education from SD until University learning English as a Foreign language but is not second language. The Faculty of Tarbiyah and Education IAIN Ambon. The writer research about the ability the students for three department were Biology, Mathematics and PAI for the ability reading English text, the result from questioner and test showed that the ability from student all specially Biology, mathematics and PAI department still lower. The result from comprehension reading text and ability to answering the question still problem. The find result from research can be found differences between the first test the students get result 64, 13% where the student still understanding about the question and reading text, but from second test for all students result 50,06% this is indicate that the ability from student follow the lower when developing classroom materials we should also consider principles of language teaching. Some of the teaching principles is the teaching should meet the needs and want of the learners. The lectures always to looking for other method and strategy to develop students ability in reading text in English. Key words: reading, more is important, students.