Do you read or prepare to study the English material for tomorrow class? Do you often do your English homework? You can give any reason. S2: Often Have you ever studied English out of the school time or outside the school
87 not understand. The conversation indicates that Tiwi does not have enough
awareness since she pessimistically considers self-learning as a time-wasting activity. This is what she said in the interview.
R: Do you read or prepare to study the English material for tomorrow class?
Any reason?
S2: no
… R: why not?
S2:
it is useless… even by reading I still don’t understand.
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Rizka also said that she often does her homework at home because she thinks that it is better than do nothing at home. From this situation, it can be seen
that Rizka is aware that homework can facilitate her self-learning activity at home. It can be seen in the conversation below.
R: Do you often do your English homework? You can give any reason. S2: Often
R: Reason? S2: It is better than do nothing at home.
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The same idea is also expressed on the following condition. She added that in her opinion, homework can be useful to force students to learn new vocabularies at
home. Here is what she said.
R: Do you know what the function of homeworks is? S2: in order to force the students to learn new vocabularies
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Then, the researcher asked Rizka if she has ever studied English out of the school time or outside the school area. Rizka said that she usually learns English
at home with her older sister. Below is what she said in the interview.