Academic procrastination in weekly reading assignment in English language education department at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya

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Winarni, Nanik (2019) Academic procrastination in weekly reading assignment in English language education department at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Academic procrastination becomes a problem in the education field. There are six areas of academic work procrastination, namely, writing a term paper, studying for examination, keeping up with weekly reading assignments, performing the administrative tasks, attending meeting and attendance tasks. Keeping up with weekly reading assignments is the focus area in this qualitative and case study. This delaying habit can increase the anxiety and also the distress level of the student. It can be influenced by internal factors and also external factors. Six students from intermediate 1 and 2 levels are involved in this study. The instruments.in this study are questionnaire and interview guideline. The result shows that 5 students are indicated as procrastinators. There are 3 procrastination styles appear in this study, namely, Perfectionist, Dreamer and Over Doer Procrastination Style. In addition, the main factors which influence the procrastinator are self-efficacy and task-aversiveness. This finding confirm the previous study that the main internal factor influences academic procrastination is self-efficacy and the main external factor that influence is task aversiveness. The future study can explore the other areas academic procrastination or the treatment of procrastination