The Relation between The Trends of Research on Attitude and Related
shared similar concept of the investigated issues. Research on these topics were commonly associated with teaching method and English skills and knowledge.
These findings are in line with the principle of Competence-based Learning where it views attitude as an integrated competence along with skills and knowledge.
In terms of participants, the role and development of attitude and five related learning factors could not be well represented as the researchers tended to
use adult learners as their research subject. Research on these topics were mostly intended to find out participants’ motivation, perception, attitude, belief, learning
style and learning strategy towards English language teaching and learning. In terms of methodology, the results were almost equal for both
quantitative and qualitative methods. However, quantitative method received higher percentage in terms of occurrence. Indeed, questionnaire was found as the
most frequently used instrument to obtain the data and followed by interview. Moreover, descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis were found as the most
dominant analysis techniques. These results indicate that research on attitude and
related learning factors can be conducted both quantitatively and qualitatively. Unfortunately, the use of both sampling and validation techniques is still in a
limited number. Therefore, it can be interpreted that English educational researchers within the studied research reports are still less aware about the
importance of these two components in conducting research. In terms of results, the findings revealed that most of the participant hold
positive perception, attitude and belief towards English language teaching and PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
learning. It can be articulated that participants in ICC, OCC and ECC, particularly in Indonesia showed interest and respect towards English teaching and learning.
Second, the results of qualitative analysis indicate that English educational research on attitude and related learning factors which were conducted in 2007 to
2016 had not explore many topics of attitude as practiced in 2013 Curriculum. However, they had yielded the principle of Competence-based Learning where
attitude is viewed as an integrated competence along with skills and knowledge. It can be seen from the involvement of English skills speaking, writing, reading and
listening and knowledge vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation in the investigation of attitude and related learning factors.
Indeed, these conclusions have a weakness point due to the main instrument of this research, that is the researcher herself. Therefore, she applied
keywords and a table to minimize the subjectivity of the research results. Whereas the strength of this research laid on the qualitative analysis. The previous studies
on research trends did not apply qualitative analysis in examining the research reports. Therefore, the results remain on the surface as they simply present the
occurrences of the research contents without investigating deeper about the relation of those research trends with the current approach or curriculum.
In a nutshell, this research provides information on current trends of English educational research on attitude and related learning factors and their
relation with Competence-based Learning. Through the results of this research, an adjustment can be made in order to improve the quality of English education,
particularly regarding to attitude in Competence-based Learning. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI