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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure Page
2.1 The Perceptual Process
8 4.1 The Implementation of Role Play
33 4.2 The Advantages of Role Play
35 4.3 Students’ Perceptions on the Use of Role Play
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LIST OF APPENDICES
APPENDICES Page
A. Students’ Questionnaire
46 B.
Raw Data of Students’ Questionnaire 47
C. Sample of Students’ Questionnaire
50 D.
Observation Sheet 56
E. Interview Guideline
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
This chapter provides the background information of the research dealing with the research topic. In this chapter, the researcher is going to discuss
the research background, research problems, problem limitation, research objectives, research benefits, and the definition of terms.
A. Research Background
In this globalization era, English had been one of the languages that is used widely by people in the world, so it is essential for people to learn English.
In Indonesia, English has been taught at school in the early age. English is taught from kindergarten until Senior High School and also university. Hence, there are
four skills in language learning; one of them is speaking. In reality, many students have difficulties in learning English. One of the
reasons is because English is a new language for them and they rarely or even never use English in their daily conversations. According to Nunan 2003, many
people feel that speaking in a foreign language is harder than the other skills. Looking at that fact, it is important to find out an effective technique that can
increase the students’ interest and motivation in learning speaking English. There are many techniques that can be used to teach speaking. One of
them is role play. Role play provides the learners to practice speaking English as if they were in the real environment Nunan, 2003. Besides the teaching
2 technique, there is also the perception. Perception plays an important part in the
learning process since it influences someone’s behavior or attitudes and motivation to learn Szilagyi and Wallace, 1980. According to Altman 1985 the
result of the individual’s perception will lead them to different behavior response. The more positive their perception in the learning activities, the higher motivation
they will have. Personally, the researcher had positive perceptions on the use of role play
in speaking class. The researcher assumed that in the role play, the students could explore their speaking skill better because they could practice using the expression
directly. Role play also allows the students to work in a group. It would explore the students’ social skills such as team work, cooperation, tolerant, patience, etc.
Then, the researcher wanted to know whether the other students had the same perception on the use of role play in speaking class.
This research was conducted in English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. The participants of this research were the
students of Speaking II class F. In order to get the data, the researcher used three instruments; questionnaire, observation, and interview.
B. Research Problems
The researcher conducted this research in order to identify the answers of these formulated questions:
1. How is the role play technique implemented in speaking II class?
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What are the students’ perceptions on the use of role play technique in
speaking II class?
C. Problem Limitation
In this research, the researcher focuses on the students’ perception on the
use of role play technique in Speaking II class in the English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. This research also focuses on
answering the questions stated in the problem formulation. The survey research is used since this research is about perception. Research instruments used in this
research are questionnaire, observation sheet, and interview. The researcher focuses more on the observation and the questionnaire. The interview is used to
strengthen the data found from the questionnaire and the observation and to collect some additional information on the use of role play in Speaking II class.
The participants or the subjects of this research are the students of Speaking II class in ELESP of Sanata Dharma University academic year
20132014 class F.
D. Research Objectives
There are two objectives in conducting this research based on the problem formulation. The first objective is to identify how the role play technique was
implemented in Speaking II class. The second objective is t o identify the students’
perception on the use of role play technique in Speaking II class.
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E. Research Benefits
This research is expected to give some benefits for educational field related to the language teaching, especially for:
1. The lecturers of Speaking II Class
This study will help the lecturers to understand the students’ perception on
the use of role play technique in speaking class. The students’ perceptions on the
use of role play might be different from one student to another; whether positive or negative. The lectures might consider whether role play technique is still useful
in Speaking II class.
2. The students of Speaking II Class
It is expected that the students will know how role play technique develop their speaking skill. The students will also realize their problems related to the use
of role play technique in Speaking II class and also find the solutions of the problems.
3. Future Researchers
The researcher hopes that this research can inspire the future researchers who are interested in this topic to make further research. Hopefully, they can
obtain more information dealing with the use of role play technique; not only in Speaking II class, but also in other speaking classes.
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F. Definition of Terms
This section will discuss the definition of the terms related to the keywords of the topic discuss in this research. The keywords are perception, role play,
speaking, and speaking II class.
1. Perception
Perception is an idea, believe, or an image you have as a result of how you see or understand something. Perception can also be described as a process by
which individual attend to income stimuli, organize, and then interpret such stimuli into a message that in turn indicates an appropriate action or behavior
Szilagyi and Wallace, 1980. Perception is the process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting sensory data into usable mental representation of the world.
Huffiman, Vernoy.M and Vernoy.J, 1997. According to Robins 2001, perception is a process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory
impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
According to Altman, Valenzi, and Hodgetts 1985: 85, perception is “the
result of interpreting the stimuli meaningfully by which people select and group the stimuli”. George and Jones 2005, state that perception is “the process of
selecting, organizing, and interpreting the input from individual’s senses hearing, smell, touch, vision, and taste in order to give meanings to their environment”.
McShame and Glinow 2005 also define perception as the process of receiving information and making sense of the world around us. Based on the definitions
