Fajrianor. 2013. The students’ ability in understanding diction of poetry at fourth semester of English Department of Antasari State Institute for Islamic Studies Banjarmasin academic year 2012/2013. Thesis. English Education Department, The Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training. Advisor: Rahmila Murtiana, M.A.
Keywords: Ability, Undestanding, Diction, Poetry.
The problem formulations of this research is how the students’ ability in understanding diction of poetry at fourth semester of English Department of Antasari State Institute for Islamic Studies Banjarmasin academic year 2012/2013.
The subject of this research is 33 students of the fourth semester of English Department, the Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training, IAIN Antasari Banjarmasin academic year 2012/2013. The objects of this research is the students’ ability in understanding diction of poetry.
To collect the data, the writer uses some techniques such as test, observation, and documentary. Data processing in this research is divided into four phases: editing, coding, tabulating, and interpreting. Then, all the data are analyzed descriptively.
The result of this research shows that the students’ ability in understanding diction of poetry at fourth semester of English Department of Antasari State Institute for Islamic Studies Banjarmasin academic year 2012/2013 in very good category because the average of the test result is 87.