THE PERCEPTION OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ REGARDING ENGLISH INSTRUCTIONS ON THE USE OF HASANUDDIN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY (A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY IN THE PROVISION OF LEARNING RESOURCES

The Perception of International Students of Library Services : Descriptive Survey on providing electronic resources Supervised by Noer Jihad Saleh, MA and Abidin Pammu. This study aims to (1) describe the perceptions of foreign students towards Hasanuddin University Library services. (2) To find out the benefits of providing electronic resources for international students in relation to their English competence. This research used a mixed qualitative and quantitative descriptive survey method and it was done from the beginning of August to middle of December 2022. The instruments used questionnaires, interviews and focus group discussions (FGD). Samples were taken from 12 students in different countries. Researcher analyzed the data by using a Likert scale. The result showed that (1) there have been positive perceptions about Unhas library service specially in providing e-resources for learning materials. Most participants agreed that library services were very significant not only for domestic students but also for international students. 16.7% of students agreed, while 33.3% chose strongly agreed. 25% of respondents chose neutral. Despite some students choosing to disagree, most of them chose strongly agree. (2) it also shows that, there are 58.3% of students who chose strongly agreed that Unhas library e-resources could be able to increase students' academic reading and writing skills. 8.3% of international students chose to agree and 25% gave neutral responses then students chose to disagree. It indicated that mostly Unhas international students perceive that providing electronic resources in the Unhas library could actually improve their academic reading and writing skills. As conclusion that international students of Hasanuddin University have a good and positive perception of hasanuddin university library service specially in providing electronic resources as writing and reading materials. Keywords: International Students', Perception; library quality services; e-resources; bilingual tools.