The Trend of Indonesian Language and Literature Education Study Program Universitas Negeri Medan Students in Choosing the Topic and Research Types of 2010 to 2017

Abstract

This research is triggered by many research topics of the Indonesian Language and Literature Education Study Program (hereinafter referred to as PBSI) students which are the same and piled on certain research topics. Moreover, so far there has not been any study related to the research trends that have been conducted by PBSI students, that the preparation of the research roadmap conducted by the study program is not optimal. This study aims to analyze the trend of research topics for the final project of PBSI Study Program students from 2010 to 2017. A descriptive research method is used in this study. The results of this study indicate that the trend of the research topics for the students from 2010 to 2017 consists of: a) the studies on experimental models/methods/strategies of Indonesian language learning was 82%, b) the studies on learning media was 8%, c) the linguistic studies was 5%, meanwhile the other topics studies were 5%. Furthermore, the trend of the research type conducted by PBSI Study Program students is dominated by the type of experimental research that was 90%, then classroom action research, correlation research, and descriptive research were 10%.