Martha’s profile Martha’s Description

58 understanding in written texts. Spoken texts, I improve it from watching English movies without Indonesian subtitles. Although I often miss some words because the actors speak so fast but at least I learn. MA13 Every time I get a new word, I check the dictionary. Oia, in linguistic class I learn more about word formation. We did a lot of practices there. MA12 Martha was lucky since her mother and sister could speak English well. Her sister graduated from PBI Sanata Dharma, while her mother graduated from KBI Sanata Dharma. Martha often practiced her English with them at home. By doing so, she could get more exposures and improve her English skills. MA14: I ask my mother and my sister, because they also know English. Sometimes we speak English at home. Oia, I also learn new phrases through movies. Q15: Wow, you’re lucky enough to have such exposures at home, Martha. You, your sister and your mom, it’s great that you can use English at home with them. MA15: Yes, miss. It’s nice because we have the same educational background. My mother also took her master degree in KBI, like you. My sister was also from PBI Sanata Dharma. So, it’s nice ELTGallery for vocabulary learning was a new thing for Martha. She felt enthusiastic with the purpose of applying the website but she did not really like the look of the website. She wished she had an opportunity to customize her own website page so that the look would be more attractive. She also regretted the errors which often happened in the website. Well, ELTGallery is a new thing in vocabulary learning. The website is quite accessible, except when we experienced error page. The destination buttons are quite simple. But unfortunately, the appearance of each page is monotonous. Quite boring, I think. Perhaps it is because the website designer is still developing the website himself so it went errors quite often. Personally, I don’t like dark blue color. I think it will be nice if we can customize the page with our favorite color. Giving cute borders, pictures, so that the look is more interesting. The most important one is the look and the 59 features can motivate us at least to open the website. Perhaps it needs the ideas of young people who master layout designing. MA22 Further, Martha shared her experience related to class situation when they were studying vocabulary with ELTGallery. Martha often felt uneasy to ask her friends when she got confused. Therefore, she preferred to consult her dictionary and tried to solve the problem herself. I often got confused to whom I should ask, because everybody was very busy with their monitor during the lesson. I felt uneasy to disturb my friends and asked questions. I usually consulted my dictionary. Just sometimes, I asked my friends’ opinion about my sentences. MA33 Some friends also helped her in giving feedback to her work since they had the portion in ELTGallery to do that. Unfortunately, Martha could not confirm and consult the feedback she got because she did not know who wrote the comments for her. She could not check them in the website. She hoped that the lecturer would take over the role of giving feedback to make it fairer. The feedback was ok.. I got much from friends but not from the lecturer. And sometimes I got confused why my sentences were commented in such a way, but I couldn’t confirm to the one who criticized them because I didn’t know who did that. I often felt that it was unfair. Ideally, it should be the lecturer’s task to criticize the students’ work. MA42 When she was asked about the tasks in ELTGallery, she liked the variation of the exercises. Yet, she minded with the number of the questions in each type of exercises. It was too many for her. The variation of exercises in ELTGallery is good, quite various. But, the number of the questions in each type of exercise is just too much. It seemed it is only focused on the weekly tasks in which we had to complete 75 sentences and make 20 sentences each week. I think it would have been better if we had fewer numbers of questions and various types of exercises. MA24 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI