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students’ writing proficiency can be explained clearly. In addition, the researcher provided three questions which were asked to the lecturer in order
to get further information related to the implementation of consultation in AEW.
F. Research Procedures
In this study, there were three steps in conducting this research. The steps were 1 distributing the questionnaire, 2 interviewing the lecturer and the
students of Academic Essay Writing course, 3 analyzing and interpreting the data results.
1. Distributing the Questionnaire
The questionnaires were distributed to the students after the midterm test on 13 November 2014. The researcher distributed the questionnaires to all AEW
students in class F who did the consultation. To avoid the inefficient in learning process, the researcher distributed the questionnaires after the class finish. Since
this study is about perception and the influences of the consultation, the researcher did not gave chance for students to bring home the questionnaire so that the
students answered the questionnaire directly in the class to avoid uncompleted questionnaires back. After getting all the questionnaires back, the researcher
started to analyze it.
2. Interviewing the Lecturer and the Students of Academic Essay
Writing Course
After getting all the questionnaires, the researcher chose five students to be interviewed as the sample. The researcher chose based on the most dominant
result of the perception on the implementation of student-teacher consultation in
32 Academic Essay Writing course. The process of determining the respondents was
based on the result of questionnaires. During the interview, the researcher asked five questions for each student and used audio recorder to save the complete
information from the interview. The interviews were held on 10 and 12 December 2014. Then, the researcher interviewed the lecturer on 5 June 2015.
3. Analyzing and Interpreting the Data Results
The last step of the research procedure was analyzing and interpreting the data from two previous steps: distributing questionnaire and interviewing
students. The result of interpreting and analyzing the data were stated as the result of the research and it would be explained and presented further. After all the
procedures were done, the findings were presented in Chapter IV.
