PROBLEM LIMITATION PROBLEM FORMULATION

7 the description and interpretation of the students’ lived experience in learning English through text-based approach. Therefore, the essential meaning of learning English through text-based approach can be discovered by having the description and interpretation. Besides, this research also offers the goal for the participants, the researcher, and the audience. For the participants, it is expected that they have more reflection in their lives and more commitment so that they can grasp success in their studies. For the researcher, it is expected can give more empathic understanding on the essential meaning of the students’ lived experience. For the audience, it is expected that they are able to recognize others’ lived experience of being marginalized or specialized.

E. BENEFITS OF THE RESEARCH

This research tries to discover the essential meaning of the students ’ lived experience towards the des cription and interpretation of the students’ lived experience in learning English through text-based approach. Having the description and interpretation, this research is expected to give significant contribution and benefits theoretically and practicality. In theoretical benefits, this study is meant to provide scientific information in education in general, especially encouraging the learners in learning English at the vocational high school through text-based approach. It is expected to increase the development of education, English language teaching and learning, and also the approach used in the vocational high school. 8 The second one is practical benefits. In this benefit, this study is demanded for teachers, students, counselors, and parents to give a good perception of implementing text-based learning approach in vocational high school. Furthermore, t he students’ story and information are expected to help the readers have better empathic understanding of learning English through text-based learning approach in vocational high school. Finally, the research is estimated to help the participants who are the students to not only reflect of what become their lived experiences in learning English through text-based approach, but also to gain success in their job fields. Moreover, this research benefits the readers, the participants, and me to become more self-fulfilling in going through the real lives.