Laura’s Personal Background

53 It consisted of three parts. Those three parts were covered with their personal lived experience. It was started with Egi’s personal lived experience. The second was Laura’s individual lived experience. Meanwhile, the last was Angel’s personal lived experience. This part consisted of constructs and sub-constructs. The constructs covered understanding, belief, feeling, action and intention. Meanwhile, the sub- constructs were students, goals, techniques, materials, and achievements.

1. Egi’s Personal Lived Experience

This part discusses the personal lived experience by Egi. The researcher has classified the participants’ story into the five major aspects of lived experience. They are understanding, belief, feeling, action and intention Manen, 1990. The first interview was done in February, 5 th 2016. It took place at the library of SMK N 2 Depok, Sleman. The interview was completed approximately 45 minutes.

a. Understanding

Based on his explanation in understanding, he got his English class for the first time in the vocational high school in July, 2013. At that time, English was learnt twice a week. In the first and second grade he was taught by Ms. Yani, and in the third grade by Ms. Yashinta. In that afternoon, the teacher started introducing the students about grammar A2E02UM. There were simple present tense, simple past tense, future tense, and perfect tense. After that, it was continued by learning text in the middle of the semester, which was in September. Firstly, he learnt descriptive text. Then, procedure text was taught in the end of the semester. It was in December A2E02UM. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 54 QE13: “Please tell me how you first understand the text in English.” AE13: “From the second grade, I got the English lesson by Bu Yani. The first time I learnt about several English texts, I thought I wouldn’t like those kinds of text because it was boring. But from time to time, I read the text, it was quite interesting. They are narrative, recount, short story, descriptive, report, and biography text that I learnt from Bu Yani.” QE13-AE13UM. QE18: ……..”Did you learn a lot from the generic structure of the text beside its vocabulary? If yes, can you tell me the reason?” AE18: “Yes, but not as much as the vocabulary. Since I like to dare myself, I like reading and taking notes for the new vocabularies I get. It was so challenging for me.” QE20: “Alright. In the third grade you deal with Ms. Yashinta right. How about her? Based on your experience, which one did Ms. Yashinta put the focus on? To the vocabulary or the generic structure one?” AE20: “She put the focus on the grammar.” QE20-AE20UM. It was a little story about Egi. According to his story, in the second grade he was taught by Ms. Yani and in the third grade was taught by Ms. Yashinta. In grade two, he did not really aware of the use of the text. Meanwhile, from time to time, he started to love reading a text by noticing its vocabulary. He was more attention to the vocabulary rather than to the generic structure. Meanwhile, his English teacher, Ms. Yashinta, put the attention to the grammar. He liked to dare himself by reading it and then taking notes of the vocabularies. QE55: ………….”What did you find from Magical Fish story?” AE55: “In that text, there is re-orientation which shows the message that we can grab from the story.” QE56: “And then?” PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI