WHAT MATTER IN STUDENTS’ ANALYSING CURRENT ISSUES POSTED IN TWITTER WRITTEN IN INDONESIAN AND ENGLISH?

Students must have good critical reading skills in order that they will be able to obtain precise and accurate information from any ICT Platform particularly Twitter. They presumably need critical reading skills. The objectives of this study is to investigate the problems faced by students in their critical reading activities when analysing the issue on Twitter both written in Indonesian and English. The study used quantitative and qualitative approach. The respondents are derived from thirty students of an English Education Department in Bandung who fit the determined criteria. The instruments to collect data are critical reading test and interview. To investigate problems faced by students in their critical reading activities the researcher used the result test and interview. The result of this study shows that students critical reading skills in Indonesian written issues are not any better than those in English written issues. What matter are their critical thinking skills. In addition, the students encounter both language related problems and non-language related problems.