Student's Perception on Drama as an English Subject at Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta

This study aims to describe the student’s perception on drama as an English subject at Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta and the difficulties faced by the student. This research is descriptive qualitative. The researcher used interview to collect the student’s perception and difficulties in learning drama. The interview is an appropriate technique to collect the data. Interview is a valuable method for exploring information from participant to get narrative data in a natural setting. The subject of the study was a student who joined Drama subject at the Department of English Education. Object of the study are story and statement of the student who take drama subject at Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta. To analyze the data, the researcher used hermeneutic phenomenological approach. The results show that: 1) The student perceived that drama is a relatively time-consuming subject to study; 2) Drama is a performance-oriented subject; 3) The difficulty faced by the student is adaptation with other crew members of Drama performance