7 their own solution to avoid those problems. The last, the researcher expects that
this study can be beneficial for the other researchers if they want to discuss the same case.
F. Definition of terms
The researcher provides some common terms that will be discussed and used in this study. They are elaborated more as follows.
1. ELESP students
Sanata Dharma University is one of the universities in Yogyakarta. This university has lots of study programs and one of the study programs is English
Language Education Study Program ELESP, which is under the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education. This study program prepares the students to be
good educators. In this study, the researcher took the data based on the experience of five ELESP students of Sanata Dharma University. The respondents in this
study are the eighth semester students who have done the Practice Teaching Program and implemented the 2013 Curriculum, especially Scientific Approach.
This term will be used in the next chapter, so it can help the readers to understand the main idea of the next part easily.
2. Scientific Approach
Scientific Approach is the approach that is used in 2013 Curriculum. Based on Hosn
an’s opinion 2014, Scientific Approach is an approach that is very useful for nowadays era. The learning process that uses Scientific Approach
has some characteristics. The first character is that it uses students-centered, so the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
8 students have the main role as learners. The second character is it uses the ability
of scientific process to construct the concept. Next, it has the process to stimulate the students to think intellectually. The fourth character is it is able to help the
students to develop their characteristics. The last is it uses direct practice technique and it also does not use verbalism. Moreover, the purposes of Scientific
Approach are to improve students’ critical thinking, to help students to have the
ability of problem solving, to create a positive atmosphere in the classroom so that the students will feel that they need to study in the classroom, t
o develop students’ characteristics, and to give the chance for the students to state their arguments,
especially in writing scientific article. In addition, Scientific Approach is an approach that has six steps, namely observing, questioning,collecting information,
associating, communicating, and networking. It is an approach that is implemented to help the students to construct the concepts of particular materials
and then solve some problems using the concepts that have been got. This approach is designed to make the students learn individually because the role of
the teachers here are only as the facilitators not the source of knowledge. This term will be used in the next part of this research because the problems that were
faced by the respondents were related to Scientific Approach. Therefore, the researcher expects that the readers can be familiar with this term and they can
grasp the main idea of this research easily. 3.
Practice Teaching Program Practice Teaching Program is one of compulsory courses in English
Language Education Study Program. The code of this course is KPE 374 and this PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
9 is the continual course from Micro Teaching KPE 373, so the students must take
Micro Teaching before taking this course. Practice Teaching Program contains of four credits. The purpose of this course is to implement the knowledge that has
been got in the real teaching. Besides, it can also help the future teachers to be more professional in teaching. In this subject, the ELESP students have to go to
some schools and implement what they have learned in the campus. Therefore, the ELESP students can experience a real teaching management in some schools, both
Junior High and Senior High School. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
