The Factors of Perception

25 Meanwhile, the theories of the teacher’s role and the principles of teaching writing are used to analyze and support the finding in chapter four. The theories of the academic essay are used to clarify kind of writing that is written by the students in AEW. It will support the finding and give more information about the academic essay. In addition, the theories of essay writing are presented in order to give clearer information about the academic essay writing. It is used to support the results of the data. The theories of student-teacher consultation are used as the main theories which are used in questionnaire and interview. Since the focus of this study is the influence and the perception on the student-teacher consultation, the theory of student-teacher consultation, the benefits and the aims of the consultation are used to analyze and support the finding in order to find out students’ interpretation and attitude towards consultation in the academic essay writing. These theories explain that student-teacher consultation helps students to learn directly from the teacher as an expert. It will help the students to improve their writing proficiency especially in writing an essay. Then, the theories of perception are the additional theories to support the questions which are related to the student’ perception on the implementation of student-teacher consultation. The theories of the factors which influence students’ perception are used in the questionnaire and interview. This theory provides three factors. The factors are perceiver, target and situation. In the questionnaire, the researcher uses two factors: perceiver and situation. It will strengthen the findings and provide the experts ’ opinion to make the discussion clearer. 26

CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

In this chapter, the researcher provides the method used in conducting the research. The detailed explanation of the methodology is presented into six sections: research method, research participant, research setting, instrument and data gathering technique, data analysis technique, and research procedures.

A. Research Method

Considering that this research presents the students’ perception on student- teacher consultation and what the influences of the student-teacher consultation, this research belongs to qualitative research. As stated by Ary and Jacobs 2010, “qualitative research deals with interpret human action, institutions, events, costumes and the like ” p. 421. In addition, Johnson and Christensen 2012 stated that qualitative research tends to rely on non-numerical data and the type of research is exploration or discovery. Thus, the results of this study will be described. The product of qualitative research is usually a narrative report that full of description to show the data result. Furthermore, since the study used qualitative research as an approach, survey research was used to get the adequate data. Survey research is non- experimental research method based on a questionnaire and an interview Johnson Christensen, 2012. The purpose of the survey is to collect data from people opinion about specific issue. In this case, the issue is about the implementation of student-teacher consultation in AEW course. From the survey research, personal