34 questionnaire, the researcher provided twenty close-ended statements with the
degree of frequency: strongly disagree 1, disagree 2, agree 3 and strongly agree 4, and five open-ended questions. Besides, the researcher also provided
five questions for the interview section to the students and three questions for the interview section to the lecturer. Therefore, the findings were divided into two
parts: 1 students’ perception on the implementation of student-teacher consultation and 2 the influences of student-teacher consultation.
1. Students’ Perception on the Implementation of Student-Teacher
Consultation
This section presents the findings which were related to the students’
perception on the implementation of student-teacher consultation. There are four sub-discussions
: students’ attitude towards writing in Academic Essay Writing, student-teacher consultation in AEW course, the st
udents’ perception on student- teacher consultation and students’ attitude towards student-teacher consultation.
This finding is used to answer the first research question.
a Students’ Attitude towards Writing in Academic Essay Writing
The researcher provided a general close-ended question in the first statement which found out whether the students faced difficulties. Then, one
open-ended question which asked what the difficulties that they got in writing an essay. The findings are presented as follow:
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Figure 4.1 Students’ Difficulties in Writing
This chart presents the students’ difficulties in writing an essay. From the
data the researcher obtained, there were twenty three respondents 76.67 who chose “agree” and three respondents 10 who chose “strongly agree”. They got
difficulties when they were writing an essay. Meanwhile, four respondents 13.34 were
in “disagree” side by stating that they did not face difficulties in writing. In order to clarify the
students’ answer, the researcher provided an open ended question in the questionnaire which was related to what kinds of the
difficulties they found in writing an essay. Based on the respondents ’ answers,
their difficulties in writing were grammar, diction, topics, ideas and content elaboration, concatenation of paragraph, references and appropriateness of thesis
statements. The result was also strengthened by the interview result which explained that participants faced difficulties in writing such as how the students
found the appropriate topic, how they chose the appropriate diction and the grammar usage, how they found the suitable references in order to support the
data, and how they organized the ideas so that the readers got the information. Hyland 2003 states that second language writers mostly find difficulty to
express themselves in writing in English because they have different linguistics
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76.67 6.67
6.67
Strongly Agree Agree
Disagree Strongly Disagree
