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of perception in students’ mind and the aspects in the environment which may influence the creation of a perception.
Through independent learning the students done outside the school, the character of independence will be gained. Not only the character of independence,
but from 19 statements in the questionnaire, the researcher was able to investigate the characteristics and skills within the students’ personality. Positive and
negative perception can also be investigated through the questions in the questionnaire. It can be concluded that the students perceived positive perception
if they stated that they gained skills and less burden in using this web based- learning method.
There is also one important aspect that can be seen from this research. If students perceive some benefits to their learning they will be more motivated to
perform well. As McKeachie 2002 observes, “students who are motivated to learn will choose tasks that enhance their learning, will work hard at those tasks,
and will persist in the face of difficulty in order to attain their goals” p.19.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter will give further information on how the data were gathered and analyzed to answer the problem formulations. This chapter consists of
research method, participants, instruments used in the research, data gathering technique, data analysis technique and the research procedures.
A. Research Method
In order to explore students’ perception on the use of Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab to develop students’ listening skill in SMA N 7 Yogyakarta, the
writer employed survey research. Survey is a kind of research which is used to gather data about the characteristics, attitudes, and opinions of people toward
some issues Ary, Jacobs and Razavieh, 2002. Survey can also be susceptible to a variety of interpretations.
This research is included in quatitantive-qualitative mix research The data is showed in the form of numbers percentage. However the researcher uses
verbal statement to support further fingdings related to the percentage. Students’ perception on the use of Randall’s ESL cyber listening lab is presented in
numbers while the analysis behind the result is presented in verbal statement.
B. Research Setting
This research was conducted in SMA N 7 Yogyakarta from October - December 2012. However, the researcher had prepared this research since
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October 2011 At that time, the researcher was having a teaching practice in SMA N 7 Yogyakarta.. The researcher did some minor informal interviews with the
English teacher and some students on October 2012. The researcher also conducted some observations to investigate the teacher’s method to deliver the
steps of using Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening to the students.
C. Research Participants
Related to the methods of data gathering, this part is divided into two sections: interview participants and questionnaire participants.
1. Interview Participants
The researcher conducted an interview to the English language teacher before conducting the research to investigate general information about the
students and also the teaching method in the class. The researcher investigated the procedure of delivering English language lesson and the problem faced by the
students in the class. After that, the researcher conducted interviews with three students to triangulate the information from the teacher. These interviews were
conducted in order to answer the first problem formulation.
2. Questionnaire Participants
The researcher chose twelfth grade students of SMA N 7 Yogyakarta. However, the researcher did not involve all members of twelfth grade students in
SMA 7 since the population of twelfth grade students in SMA 7 is very large.
