Senior High School Students’ Characteristics

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D. Senior High School Students’ Characteristics

The senior high school students are known as one level higher than junior high school students. Therefore, the senior high school students must be more mature than the junior high school students. Looking at their ages, they belong to teenage students. Furthermore, the tenth grade students of senior high school are just graduates of junior high school. They must bring their old habits when they were still in junior high school to their new environment which is senior high school. As the subject of the research in particular, the students of class X-C of SMA N 5 Magelang showed how their attitude and their interests were during the teaching and learning process of English in the classroom. They performed some differences when they were taught by their English teacher and when they were taught by the researcher. The most significant difference could be seen from their expressions of interests in listening to the teacher and researcher‟s explanation and also from the excitement to do the tasks. When taught by their English teacher, they seem to listen but some of them especially male students were just looking at the explanation blankly. They were not interested even when the teacher provided power point slides. On the other hand, when taught by the researcher, every student got excited and fully paid attention to what the researcher‟s said. They even answered the researcher‟s questions bravely. Furthermore, when it was time to the dialogue journal writing activities, they felt happy to write and respond to their partner‟s writing. The atmosphere of the class was just so good and the 28 students were having good cooperation due to the research process. Although some male students were sometimes made little noise, it seems to be normal because they are teenage students.

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