THE STUDY OF STUDENTS’ ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE ABILITY IN SECONDARY EDUCATION TOWARDS THEIR ENGLISH LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find out the background of English language ability from English education students while in secondary school on the process and sustainability of their learning in college. This type of research is descriptive research where the data collection uses questionnaire, sampling, interview, and documentation methods. For data analysis techniques in this study refer to descriptive techniques and interactive methods from Miles, Huberman, and Saldana (2014), which includes data condensation by collecting report card scores of English education students while in secondary school and interview transcripts. As for the data display in this study describes information and analysis of the research data, which is related to the learning outcomes of students in college getting better grades when they already have English language skills in secondary school, the last is conclusion drawing which explains about the conclusions of the research after the data collection process, namely about students who already have good English language skills in secondary school have the opportunity to get higher grades also in college when compared to students who have just learned English at university.