THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION

Abstract The aim of this research is to know what the English Department students’ perceptions are on the entrepreneurship. The research was conducted at the sixth semester of STKIP Muhammadiyah Pringsewu which the participant were the students who studied Entrepreneurship. There were 50 students who were involved in this research. But, in this research, the researcher only took 5 students as the representative of the students since the design of this research was qualitative research design. The data collecting techniques used in this research were think- aloud protocol, interview and observation. In analyzing the data, the researcher did some activities such as; describing, classifying and connecting. The finding of the research showed that the students have positive perception on entrepreneurship and the students also think that entrepreneurship is important seen from the usage perception.Keywords: Perception, Entrepreneurship and English Department students