Egi’s Personal Background

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3. Angel’s Personal Background

Angelis is the same as Laura, she is now in charge with internship one year ahead. Previously, she majors in Gas Manufacture and Petroleum Engineering. She is eighteen years old girl. She was born in Yogyakarta, September 17 th 1998. Her hobby is travelling. She likes exploring some new places and tasting new foods which are new for her. As in line with her major, she desires to be an engineer. She is the kind of energetic and tough adolescent. In Yogyakarta, she lives with her parents at Kaliurang Street km 16.5 Pakem Sleman, Yogyakarta. Before studying at SMK N 2 Depok Sleman, she took her junior high at SMP N 15 Yogyakarta. Her internship program is done in this year. She is employed at PT. Pertamina Lubricants, Lomanis, Cilacap, Central Java. All the days of her internship she uses Indonesian to communicate with her friends. But, when the assessors comes to her place of internship, she once communicates with them. She ever used procedure text as the way to describe how to solve the problematic gas oil. Her experience to study at vocational high school can build up her life quality more than she expected, she said.

B. DESCRIPTION

By the time the interviews were conducted, the participants were in the third grade. They were about to face the national examination and then prepared themselves to the internship which held by the school. They shared their experiences related to learning English through text-based approach. This part describes what they shared in the interview. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 53 It consisted of three parts. Those three parts were covered with their personal lived experience. It was started with Egi’s personal lived experience. The second was Laura’s individual lived experience. Meanwhile, the last was Angel’s personal lived experience. This part consisted of constructs and sub-constructs. The constructs covered understanding, belief, feeling, action and intention. Meanwhile, the sub- constructs were students, goals, techniques, materials, and achievements.

1. Egi’s Personal Lived Experience

This part discusses the personal lived experience by Egi. The researcher has classified the participants’ story into the five major aspects of lived experience. They are understanding, belief, feeling, action and intention Manen, 1990. The first interview was done in February, 5 th 2016. It took place at the library of SMK N 2 Depok, Sleman. The interview was completed approximately 45 minutes.

a. Understanding

Based on his explanation in understanding, he got his English class for the first time in the vocational high school in July, 2013. At that time, English was learnt twice a week. In the first and second grade he was taught by Ms. Yani, and in the third grade by Ms. Yashinta. In that afternoon, the teacher started introducing the students about grammar A2E02UM. There were simple present tense, simple past tense, future tense, and perfect tense. After that, it was continued by learning text in the middle of the semester, which was in September. Firstly, he learnt descriptive text. Then, procedure text was taught in the end of the semester. It was in December A2E02UM. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI