Understanding Angel’s Personal Lived Experience

72 predicate, therefore the students had to take the consequences of that. From the grade one, she knew what potential in herself was. QA17: “Do you think that learn several kinds of texts can help you in learning English? For instance, procedure, narrative, report, hortatory texts?” AA17: “Essentially yes, but because there are so many rules of those texts, so sometimes I get confused of that.” QA26: “Do you find any problems when dealing with English starting from grade one?” AA26: “Not really. We usually use English for communication in our daily lives, so we don’t really focus on its grammar. It helps us to increase our score. From the grade one, the difficult things were learning the formal English. When we have already learn formal English such as the grammar, honestly, my friends and I are difficult to follow the material. So we learn English because we have to pass National Examination. After that, if we want to acquire English deeper, we have to learn more.” QA17-QA18, QA26-AA26BM. The above dialog discussed about the essence of learning text. Angel found it rather difficult since it contained of rules. Moreover, in her belief, English was used especially for communication. She did not really like when entering the grammar focus. She confessed that nowadays, they learnt English because they had to pass national examination. QA27: “In learning texts in English, which one of those types influences you the most? For instance, procedure text. After learning it, you finally recognize on how to make something in English. What do you think?” AA27-AA28: “Well, descriptive text. Because I can increase my knowledge based on that text.” QA29: “Why do you choose that text?” PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 73 AA29: “Because I can build up my knowledge about what we describe. So I can enhance new vocabularies.” QA27-AA29BS According to Angel, descriptive text became the most influencing text. It was because the descriptive text could increase knowledge about what we describe. Enhancing the vocabularies was also believed can be gotten by learning this text. The next talk was about feeling.

c. Feeling

In Angel’s view, learning English can be somewhat exciting or vice versa, depended on the situation. Situation here could be meant as the materials delivered, the teacher’s technique, and the atmosphere of the classroom. QA03: “Do you like English, Angel?” AA03: “Hmm, yes, sometimes, depends on the condition.” QA04: “Can you tell me how do you like or dislike?” AA04: “I like it when I understand the material, I can follow it, then I can learn well and the teacher deliver the lesson well. But, not only me, my friends also feel that, if the situation of teaching and learning process is unpleasant, and the material is also boring and difficult, and there is no support from the teacher, the students are usually unfocused. We used to talking to our friends and texting, playing our gadgets.” QA05: “I see. What is the material that difficult for you?” AA05: “The difficult one is the material which has its pattern. When I face the exam which contain of materials which use logic, I still can do it. But when I find it with pattern, for instance, English which use 1 st type, 2 nd type, 3 rd type, I consider it challenging.” QA07: “Have grammar like past tense, past perfect tense, been taught by the teacher? What do you think? Is that hard or not?” AA07: “It’s quite difficult. Also, when it has been in the differentiating step. I find it hard to do it.” PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI