The Ability Students of Indonesian Language and Literature Education to Appreciate the Literature Works and the Obstacles they Faced

The Indonesian Language and Literature Education Study Program students (PBSI) Universitas Negeri Medan should have good abilities in appreciating literature works, especially the works arose at the beginning of the modern Indonesian literature, literature works of the library class, new poets, 45, 66, to 2000's. However, many of them at the beginning level have never read the literature works. Therefore, this research is aimed to describe the ability of first year students to appreciate and criticize modern Indonesian literature works. This research used a descriptive method by conducting a survey of PBSI students' abilities in appreciating the literature works. The research data were obtained from the students’ answers based on the test questions given. The questions are in multiple choice objective questions which consist of 60 questions. Then, the interviews were conducted with several students to obtain the data that related to the obstacles they faced. The research results indicate that (1) The ability of PBSI Universitas Negeri Medan students 2022 in appreciating the literature works is in the moderate average category with an average value of 67.13.