87 understand the meaning of the words. Second, they could not differentiate
between verbs, nouns, adverbs, and adjectives. They felt difficult to understand the concept although in Bahasa Indonesia course they had learned about it.
6. Difficulties in Pronunciation
First, the students were not used to practice their mouth to pronounce English sounds. Therefore, they felt weird to pronounce certain words in English.
They also felt shy to practice their pronunciation. Second, they could not or did not know how to pronounce certain English sounds that they could not find in
Bahasa Indonesia , such as the sounds
æ in „cat‟, θ in „think, or dʒ in „large‟.
c. Students’ Capabilities
Here, students‟ capabilities refer to two categories, capabilities to overcome difficulties in listening to or reading English stories and capabilities to
get an access to a computer or a laptop and internet. First, the researcher identified the students‟ capabilities to overcome difficulties in listening to or reading
English stories based on the result of question number twelve. From the question, the researcher found that the students had some alternatives to overcome their
difficulties. Most of them 79.2 mentioned that opening dictionary was the first alternative that they would choose. The second alternative 64.3 was asking the
English teacher. The third alternative 56.6 was asking their friends. However, when the researcher compared the answers with the result of the
classroom observations, the researcher found that, in real practice, the students did not use dictionary as the first alternative. The first alternative that they chose was
asking their English teacher and friends. The reason was because they needed much time to look up in the dictionary. Besides, they were not sure with the
88 answer that they found. The detail information of the result of the question
number twelve is presented in Table 4.5.
Table 4.5 The Percentages of Question Number 12 No.
Question Answers
Percentage
12. What do you do to overcome
the difficulties? a. Opening dictionary
79.2 b. Asking friends
56.6 c. Asking family members
29.2 d. Asking the teacher
64.2 e.
Etc. browsing internet 8.5
Second , the researcher identified the students‟ capabilities to access a
computer or a laptop and internet based on the result of question numbers fifteen and sixteen. The information would be the basis in specifying learning or teaching
activities and resources, especially in developing the multimedia materials. From the questions, the researcher found that it was not difficult for the students to get
an access to a computer or a laptop and internet. The reason was because half of them had a computer or a laptop. The rest could get the access from their parents,
siblings, the computer rentals, the internet counters, or at the school. The detail information of the result of the questions number fifteen and sixteen is presented
in Table 4.6.
Table 4.6 The Percentage of Questions Number 15 and 16 No.
Questions Answers
Percentage
15. How do you get an access to a
computer or a laptop? a. From my own
35.8 b. From my parents
27.4 c. From my brother or sister
11.3 d. From the school
5.7 e. From computer rentals
12.3 f. Etc. internet counters
7.5
