The Result of the Questionnaire
46 The last statement of the first part of the questionnaire, intended to discover
if the guessing meaning from context procedure helped the students retain the words whose meaning they had figured out using the procedure in a relatively
long period of time. Only 1 student 3.3 strongly agreed, another 21 students 70 agreed with the statement, while the other 8 students 26.6 disagreed.
The agreement level of the questionnaire is 73.3. After elaborating from the close-ended part of the questionnaire, the
researcher moves to the findings from the open-ended question. There were five questions in this part of this questionnaire. The questions were designed to elicit
responses from the students with regards to their experience practicing guessing meaning from context procedure for three weeks, such as the advantages and
drawbacks of the procedure, their difficulties while using this procedure, the most difficult steps of the procedure, and the clue that helped the most in figuring out a
word‟s meaning using the guessing meaning from context procedure.
The researcher started from the first question in the questionnaire that was about the advantages of the guessing meaning from context procedure
experienced by the participants. There should be 30 participants to fill out the questionnaire. Unfortunately, only 27 participants could fill all of the
questionnaire, because three participants were asked the teacher to have another activity. The researcher presents the findings in Table 4.6
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Table 4.6 The Advantages of Using Guessing Meaning from Context Procedure according to the Participants
Number of participant
Advantages of the Guessing Meaning from Context Procedure Based on The Questionnaire Result
1 “I understand more and able to guess the difficult words”
2 “It is easier for me to determine the meaning of a word”
3 “I can increase my knowledge”
4 “easy to be understood”
5 “I able to understand to use this procedure”
6 “knowing the meaning and significance vocabulary”
7 “knowing the meaning and significance vocabulary”
8 “I knew new technique in knowing the unknown words”
9 “knowing new technique”
10 “easier to learn new vocabulary”
11 “we can find a new vocabulary easily”
12 “clear and easy procedure”
13 “The unknow word can be translated into Indonesian by a fun way”
14 “I could learn the meaning of the unknown words”
15 “I could figure out the unknown words and sentences”
16 “it was little bit easy to be understood”
17 “I could know the exact vocabulary even though it took time to work
on the steps” 18
“I could determine the meaning of the sentence in accordance” 19
“It is easier for me in determining the meaning of new unknown word”
20 “there was no advantage because it adds confusion”
21 “I could understand the words that are less understood using words
previously” 22
“It is easier for me to understand the meaning of the unknown by using this procedure”
23 “I could easily learn new vocabulary without opening the dictionary,
as well as draw conclusions” 24
“we knew the meaning of the unknown word” 25
“I could sum up slowly and surely” 26
“knowing the meaning and significance vocabulary” 27
“can accelerate the task” PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
48 The next open-ended question was designed by the researcher in an attempt
to discover the drawbacks of guessing meaning from context procedure from the point of view of the participants who had already admitted that the procedure for
three weeks. A large number of participants admitted that the procedure was not practical and was complicated. The participants‟ responses to this question are
listed in Table 4.7.
Table 4.7 The Disadvantages according to the participants Number of
Participants Disadvantages of the Guessing Meaning from Context Procedure
Based on the Questionnaire Result
1 “must be able to guess the unknown word”
2 “difficult to understand”
3 “difficult to be known”
4 “difficult to translate”
5 “difficult to understand”
6 “Not practical”
7 “Not practical”
8 “not practical and a lot of steps”
9 “We had to know the part of speech”
10 “too much steps”
11 “too much steps”
12 “finding part of speech first”
13 “difficult to find the similar word meaning”
14 “Not practical”
15 “the steps were difficult to be understood”
16 “Not practical”
17 “takes time, too long steps”
18 “Not practical”
19 “we had to understand part of speech”
20 “Not practical”
21 “Difficult and not practical”
22 “Not practical”
23 “we had to find the part of speech from the sentence”
24 “Not practical”
25 “Difficult and not practical”
26 “Not practical”
27 “Nothing”
49 As seen in Table 4.7 as many as eleven participants conceded that the
guessing meaning from context procedure was not practical. According to Nation 1990, p.160 the lack of this technic is a systematic procedure. Another seven
participants conceded that this procedure was difficult, while the other said that this procedure was inefficient, takes time, many steps to follow and must
understand part of speech. It was because this procedure was new to the research subjects and has five steps on it. Moreover, the limitation of the time excursion
also influenced the participants during the implementation process of this procedure.
For the next question in the open-ended section of the questionnaire, the researcher attempted to elicit the participants‟ opinions on the difficulties they
experienced for the three weeks. According to Nation 1990 the guessing meaning from context is a systematic procedure so it rises difficulties for the
learners. The participants wrote the difficulties in the questionnaire. There were seven out of twenty-seven participants who said that it was difficult to use this
procedure because there were five steps. Another twelve participants said it was difficult to identify the part of speech. The rest said that it was the researcher‟s
incomprehensible explanation on the procedure, which increased the difficulty in learning the procedure.