Students' problems in generating ideas to write thesis proposal in seminar proposal course at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya

This study focuses on Students’ Problems in Generating Ideas to Write Thesis Proposal in Seminar Proposal Course at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya. The questions of this research are 1) What are the students’ problems in generating ideas to write thesis proposal in English? 2) How do the lecturer respond to the students problems in generating ideas to write thesis proposal in English?. This is qualitative research. The instruments used questionnaire and interview. The result shows that students have problems in identify gap in previous studies, showing novelty at the proposed research understanding of the theoretical background and concepts related to their research topic, interest and finding the suitable sources that support their research. The result of lecture reponse shows that students’ do not have effort to reading and looking for sources to support their research topic.