Students Perception of the use of integrated skills approach in General English Course at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya

In English language teaching the role of the teaching approach is important it will shape the learning process as effective as possible. To achieve an effective learning process in EFL, there are many approaches that we can select such as Grammar Translation Method, Silent way, Total Physical Response and Integrated skills approach and even many more. In choosing learning approach, the teacher should be careful, because every approach has advantages and disadvantages. The teachers also have to reconsider the student’s perception regarding the approach and learning activities which is suitable to fulfil the student’s need. In this research, the researcher investigated the student’s perception of the use of integrated skills approach in General English class. To discover the result, this research conducted survey research to the General English students by collecting their perception by using a set of questionnaire. In this research, the questionnaire was distributed to the first semester students of English teacher education department of UIN Surabaya who have enrolled General English course. The student perceived that in General English class the integrated skills activity was the most advisable activity that conducted in class. Student’s perceived that an activity which involved more than one skill is more enjoyable rather than single skills activity. Another important finding is that the students believed that linguistic skills should be taught in the class alongside with integrated skills activity. Therefore, the term integrated skills approach is not only limited in language skills, but also for other skills such as linguistic skills. Furthermore, the teacher should be able to understand the student’s need, for example the teacher is recommended to teach linguistic skills to fulfil the students’ need in learning by combine it with integrated skills activities to attract the students’ interest