Research Procedure RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
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students 50 said that they are less confident when speaking. Six students 30 said that their obstacle in learning English when they did not want to
practice. It could be seen that most students had learnt English when they were in
the Elementary School. It can be seen in the table that 90 of the students joined extracurricular English Club because they liked to learn English. Only 60 of
students who joined English course before, so the level of knowledge of the students was different. Then, the researcher should give the materials in the level
of less difficulty. If the researcher gives the materials based on the students who are expert in English, others students will be difficult to follow the learning
activity. Other characteristic of the students was they were lazy to practice their English. In this case, teacher should be a good motivator so that students were
interested in learning English. Students said that their obstacle of learning English were they did not know the meaning of the vocabularies and they less confident to
speak English. They were afraid if they made mistake. People can not learn without make any mistake. This case that would be the problem should be solved
by the researcher. Knowing the students characteristics, the researcher get the students’ needs.
From the discussion above, it can be concluded in the simple way that the students’ characteristics as follow:
1. They like English so they are motivated to join this course.
2. They start to learn English when they are in the elementary School.
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3. Some of them have ever joined English course so they have some basic
knowledge. and the students’ needs as follow:
1. They need more vocabularies so that they know the meaning of English
vocabulary. 2.
They need more practice in order to make them be more confident. 3.
They need more practice so that they will be more fluent in speaking English.