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4.2.2 The Students’ Major Problems in Using Internet for Academic Purposes
The major problem of the sixth semester ELESP students in the academic year of 20092010 was the slow Internet connection in the campus. The free Internet
access which is provided by the campus was in slow connection. This problem somehow influenced the motivation of the use of Internet. Beside the major problem,
other problems were following such as difficulty in deciding the valid and reliable sources or materials, confusing with too much information in the results of searching,
difficulty in searching or difficulty in using search engine effectively. The minor problems in using Internet for academic purposes were some of the students disliked
using Internet and preferred to printed materials, and some of the students mentioned their other problem i.e. they had to pay for downloading something from Internet.
4.2.3 The Students’ Recommendations to Solve the Major Problems in Using Internet for Academic Purposes
The various recommendations were recommended by the students. Some recommendations were helpful, but some were impractical. The most recommended
suggestion was asking campus management to increase the speed of the Internet connection, but it seems a little bit difficult to realize it since the campus
management’s policy is beyond the control of the students. Other recommendations were accessing the Internet not in rush hours, or just go to the Internet café, but of
course for some students, those were not good recommendations either.
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Some of the students suggested not to ban any websites such as Facebook, Youtube, etc. This suggestion was contrary with their suggestion to increase the
speed of the Internet connection. It is because allowing access to these websites will make the Internet connection slow since these websites require huge bandwidth.
There were also some misconceptions of the students about the valid and reliable sources like all .com, .pdf, or personal blogs were not valid or reliable.
However, the suggestions that the university should provide reliable sources and the lecturers should recommend the students the valid and reliable sources or materials
were good recommendations. On the other hand, the recommendations to solve the problem of difficulty in
confusing with too much information in the results of searching were almost the same as the recommendations in deciding the valid and reliable sources or materials such as
checking the author, reference, link, institution; choosing the .pdf, .org, .edu domains; finding the latest; excluding the .com domain, Wikipedia or blog websites; comparing
with other sources, and asking lecturers. From analyzing the recommendations from a very few students regarding to
solve the problem of difficulty in searching or do not know exactly how to use search engine effectively, the writer concluded that many of the students still did not know
how to use Google search engine skillfully.
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4.2.4 The Lecturers’ Recommendations to Solve the Major Problems in Using Internet for Academic Purposes
The recommendation of the lecturers for solving the slow Internet connection problem in the campus was increasing the speed of the Internet connection, as the
same as the students, but the lecturers stated that they could do nothing since it concerned with the campus’ policy. However, one of the lecturers mentioned that it
was planned and it was based on the grant, the grant program from the government. The recommendations for solving difficulty in deciding the valid and reliable
sources or materials from the lecturers were the students must know the criteria and the purpose in searching the sources or materials, the lecturers should provide several
valid and reliable links for the students, teach the students how to use Google search engine, give certain tips and tricks on how to find the valid sources such as do not use
Wikipedia as sources, check the institution, website, or university website about the author’s information, find the .edu website will be better. The lecturers also corrected
the recommendations from the students that not all the .com websites or blogs were invalid or unreliable. Some of the .com domains or blogs are valid and reliable.
Moreover, not all .pdf domains are valid or reliable. It depends on the content, author, accuracy, and currency.
Furthermore, to solve the problem of difficulty in confusing with too much information in the results of searching and difficulty in searching or do not know
exactly how to use search engine effectively, the lecturers recommended that the
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students should know and the lecturers should teach how to search the sources skillfully using Google search engine and make use of the Google advanced search.
The students could learn it on-line or ask someone or lecturers to teach them. One of the lecturers stated that the search skill should be taught earlier to the students in any
class which uses Internet as resources since the Internet has been widely used recently, especially for academic purposes.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
This chapter presents conclusions of this study and suggestions for the English teachers or lecturers, learners, and other researchers.
5.1 Conclusions
This study aimed to identify three research problems which were stated in the first chapter i.e. to identify the perceptions of sixth semester ELESP students in the
academic year of 20092010 of Sanata Dharma University on the use of Internet in improving their academic achievements, to identify the major problems of the
students in using Internet for academic purposes, and to identify the recommendations of the students and lecturers to solve the major problems that
students faced in using Internet for academic purposes. Based on the results of the questionnaires and the interviews, the following
conclusions are drawn. It is proven that the sixth semester ELESP students in the academic year of 20092010 of Sanata Dharma University perceive the use of Internet
in improving academic achievements positively. The students always use Internet for academic purposes more or less two hours in a day. They perceive using Internet
for academic purposes is comfortable, interested, motivated, easy, quick, and
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