Iskandar Abdul Samad, Siti Sarah Fitriani, Andi Anto Patak, Sukardi Weda
Various levels of undergraduate students' competence in Script Defense Examination (SDE) is not a secret among lecturers at the English department of Syiah Kuala University and State Islamic University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. The students are competent in English communication; however, in the SDE, the situation is varied requires preparation for the event. Based on a common assumption, to be competent in a specific communicative event, students are required to know the genre of the event. SDE is a communicative event which has its genre. Genre Approach (GA) is known to help introduce genre elements to students, including the elements of SDE genre. However, the use of GA to help students perform competently in SDE is still debatable. In this study, we focus our investigation on the extent to which the applications of GA impacts on students' performance in the SDE in English. The study therefore focused on the perspectives of six undergraduate students from Syiah Kuala University and State Islamic University. The primary data for our study is students' perspectives which were audio recorded and transcribed into a written form. Data analysis conducted qualitatively in which the researchers employed data display, data description, and conclusion verification (Punch and Oancea (2014). The relation between GA and students' competence and confidence in the SDE, which is based on the students' perceptions, is presented in this paper. © Asian E F L Journal Press. All rights reserved.
English Education Department, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Indonesia; English Department, Faculty of Languages and Literature, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia; English Literature Study Program, Faculty of Languages and Literature, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia
