Data Analysis Techniques RESEARCH METHODS

d. others The students’ ability in understanding the vocabulary in the textbooks…. a. very poor 6 17.65 b. poor 23 67.65 c. good 5 14.70 d. very good Based on Table 4.2. above, the students face some difficulties in reading their English textbook. 85.29 of students felt that it was difficult to deal with the unknown vocabularies in the text. Ten students found that it was difficult to understand the text due to complexity of the text’s structure. Fourteen students felt that they faced difficulty in reading textbook since they could not read rapidly. Moreover, it can be seen that more than half of all students thought that their ability in understanding vocabularies is poor. It can be said that the students’ proficiency level of vocabulary was not enough to meet their target situation. The data above were supported by the interview. Below is the result of the interview. ……………………………………………………………………......... R : Kalau menurut Bapak sendiri bagaimana kemampuan reading mahasiswa?In your own opinion, how is the students’ reading ability? T : Sebagian sudah lumayan bagus, tapi sebagian besar mengalami kesulitan dalam memahami isinya soalnya mereka tidak tahu tentang kosakata tertentu. Some students have a good reading ability. But most of them are still face difficulty in understanding the text since they do not know about certain vocabularies. ……………………………………………………………………......... 3 Wants Wants related to the students’ expectation after accomplishing their study. Table 4.3. shows that almost all of the students wanted to learn the definition, the meaning, the part of speech, and the pronunciation of the words. However there were only twelve students who wanted to learn the word’s part. The data of the students’ wants is presented below. Table 4.3. Target Needs: Wants Aspect Question Item N Wants The aspect of vocabulary that the students want to know … a. the definition 25 73.52 b. the meaning translation 34 100 c. the part of speech 21 61.76 d. the pronunciation 19 55.89 e. the word’s part 9 26.47 f. others the image 18 52.94 It can be concluded that the students of Physics Education Department Yogyakarta University needed to learn English to understand their English textbook. They had a difficulty to understand vocabulary in the textbook. Therefore they want to learn about the word’s definition, meaning, part of speech, and also pronunciation.

b. Description of Learning Needs

1 Input Input refers to the types of data that will be used by the learners in working with the course of completing a task. The data of input chosen by students are presented below. Table 4.4. Learning Needs: Input Aspect Question Item N Input Length of the text is… a. 251 words 6 17.65 b. 251 – 500 words 18 52.94 c. 501 – 750 words 10 29.41 d. 750 words The amount of vocabulary learned in each unit is … a. 6 words 6 17.65 b. 6 – 10 words 12 37.64 c. 11 – 15 words 16 47.06 d. 15 words Corpus data of vocabulary in Unit 1 are …. 1 boundary 24 70.59 2 differ 11 32.35 3 displaced 25 73.52 4 displacement 27 79.41 5 equilibrium 21 61.76 6 forth 27 79.41 7 generalization 15 44.11 8 independent 5 14.70 9 oscillate 27 79.41 10 perpendicular 18 52.94 11 propagate 21 61.76 12 propagation 24 70.59 13 regard 22 64.70 14 satisfied 18 61.76 15 vanish 26 76.47 Corpus data of vocabulary in Unit 2 are …. 16 adjacent 27 79.41 17 coincide 23 67.65 18 contain 13 38.23 19 essential 9 26.47 20 excite 28 82.35 21 gap 18 52.94 22 homogeneous 8 23.52 23 interleaved 28 82.35 24 pair 12 35.29 25 thereby 24 70.59 Corpus data of vocabulary in Unit 3 are …. 26 absorbed 18 61.76 27 absorption 20 58.82 28 chiefly 29 85.29 29 density 19 55.89 30 determine 7 20.28 31 determined 7 20.28 32 occupancy 26 76.47 33 occupied 29 85.29 34 occur 21 61.76 35 rarely 20 58.82