Students’ Perception on the Activities Using SALL

60 answers, they tried to find the solution by looking over in the dictionaries, notes, and also books. In solving their problems, they asked the teacher as the last alternative Kalo nggak bisa tanya temen. Kalo juga nggak bisa tanya temen lainnya lagi. Kalo udah mentok baru ya tanya guru. Student 2, Interview Tanya temen, soalnya kan takut mau tanya gurunya. Mending tanya temen, atau buka kamus. Student 5, Interview Sama Mbak. Tanya teman dulu, lihat buku, baru aternatif terakhir tanya gurunya. Student 6, Interview From their answers above, it could be concluded that they had positive response. They liked learning English using SALL, though several students did not like using SALL. They also made effort when they had difficulties. Through the answer above, it could be concluded that the students had positive perception on their motivation after learning English using SALL.

b. Students’ Perception on the Activities Using SALL

Most students said that they often had many varied activities when learning using SALL such as reading stories, listening to music on cassette tape, doing crosswords, filling in the blanks on some statements, making letters of applications, and so on. Ada mendengarkan kaset, topiknya macam-macam. Terus ada juga yang mengerjakan paket soal, tapi soalnya juga bervariasi juga, jadi tidak sama semua. Students 6, Interview Dengan tape untuk listeing, ngerjakan task dan soal-soal untuk writing, vocabulary, grammar, speaking. Student 4, Interview PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 61 Most students said that through those activities, they were made happy and enthusiastic in learning English. Ya, karena guru tidak membatasi aktifitas siswa untuk belajar. Jadi saya bisa belajar sendiri. Student 4, Interview Kalo buat saya sih saya senang. Ya karena itu tadi saya bisa bebas memilih pelajaran yang mana,moodnya skrg itu mau belajar yg ini gitu ya milih ini. Lagi pengen ndengerin brarti ya listening ato lagi semangat nulis brarti ya writing. Student 1, Interview They also said that they were quite enthusiastic to use SALL, especially when they had listening part. It was because they could play and replay the listening as many as they wanted. Ya sudah cukup. Kadang ada yang agak susah dan tidak jelas pengucapannya dan sulit dipahami, tapi dengan self-access learning dengan tape dan kaset sendiri-sendiri jadi bisa saya ulang-ulang dan jadi lebih bisa dipahami. Student 3, Interview The students also said that the activities that they experienced so far helped them in improving their English skills such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and also helped to increase their vocabulary list and their pronunciation. Menurut saya ketrampilan kan dari banyak latihan, jadi kalo kita sering dengerin ya mungkin bisa lebih nambah. … Student 1, Interview Sesuai ... Ya, banyak contoh-contoh percakapan yang baru saya tau dengan mengerjakan soal-soal tersebut. Jadi banyak yang bisa saya pakai. Student 2, Interview Ya sesuai. Banyak latihan membaca dan menjawab soal-soal dari bacaan, untuk memahami jadi lebih terlatih. Student 3, Interview Ya. Karena banyak latihan untuk menulis surat misalnya. Atau menulis lamaran pekerjaan, pengumuman, kadang essay juga. Student 6, Interview PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 62 The students’ answers on their preference part in SALL varied. Most students liked the listening part. Three of them shared: Listening, karena saya tau saya kurang bagus di listening jadi saya ingin lebih bagus lagi. Student 6, Interview Saya suka listening. Kadang-kadang dengar lagu juga. Ada kata-kata yg sulit dan susah dimengerti, jadi bisa lebih paham. Student 3, Interview Eee.. kalo saya listening Mbak. Karena kemampuan listening saya belum bagus. Soalnya bisa memutar ulang memutar ulang, apa kok kata2nya belum pas dan belum jelas tadi. Student 2,Interview Since every student had their own opinion and self-experience, they also had their personal preference on what they liked. Some of them liked the reading part. One of them shared: Kalo saya paling suka bagian readingnya. Soalnya saya kurang di bagian reading, jadi saya bisa ngulang reading berulang-ulang sampai saya paham. Sama writing juga, saya suka nulis soalnya. Students 1, Interview Otherwise, some students also did not like writing; they thought that they had to write a lot. Some students also did not like the grammar part and the listening part. One of them shared: Yang tidak saya sukai writing itu. Soalnya agak banyak. Jadi suruh menulis banyak jadi agak bingung juga. Student 3, Interview From their answers above, it could be seen that they had positive response on the activities. Although there was an activity that they did not like such as writing, it was normal. Their positive response also could be seen that they gave advice to add the activities so that it could be more varied. Through the answers PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 63 above, it could be concluded that the students had positive perception on the activities using SALL.

c. Students’ Perception on the Implication after Learning Using SALL