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Program of Sanata Dharma University year 2007, on completing Book Report Course the students will be able to develop basic understanding of reading
abridged and unabridged English novels and write book reports containing information about the novels, setting of place and time, characters’ names and
descriptions, conflict, theme, summary and personal opinion about the novel. It is offered in semester two, with two credits and two class hours.
B. Theoretical Framework
Book Report Course in Sanata Dharma University is designed to introduce the students to English novels, and to increase their ability in reading English
novels. Students should write a report for every book they have read. Book Report Course lets the learners to choose the story they want to read by themselves. The
freedom in choosing the story initiates to autonomous learning, and encourages learners to gradually love reading literary works and to be able to grow their
interest in reading literary works Sinclair 1996: 142.
Sinclair 1996: 138 states that the very nature of reading representational materials implies a focus on the individual reader by demanding that reader’s
respond and personal interaction with the text. It means that the reader’s opinion
on the book is important because the reader’s respond shows their understanding.
Book Report Course gives a great opportunity for students to learn English, especially English in literary works, and suggests autonomous learning
for students. However, it is possible that students have different perception on
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have been mentioned above, according to Ahmadi and Supriyono 1991: 131 there are some other factors, such as motivation, maturity or readiness, and
learning experience which can influence students’ learning process. Those factors influence students’ perception and learning outcomes as well. Therefore, it can be
concluded that students’ positive perception mean that Book Report Course has been conducted well and has given chance to student to learn well for Marzano et
al. 1993: 1 stated that “without positive attitudes and perception, students have little chance of learning proficiently.” Students’ negative perception, in contrary,
mean that Book Report Course has not been conducted well enough in the students’ point of view and the course has not provided chance for students to
learn proficiently.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents the methodology of the research. This includes the research method, the research participants, the research instruments, data
gathering technique, data analysis technique, and the research procedure related to the research.
A. Research Method
This research is going to obtain the students’ perception on the teaching learning processes in the Book Report Course; therefore this research belongs to a
descriptive research, and the method used is survey research. According to Best 1970, as cited in Morrison et al. 2000: 169, descriptive research concerns with:
Conditions or relationships that exist; practices that prevail; beliefs, points of views, or attitudes that are held; processes that are going on; effects that
are being felt; or trends that are developing. At times, descriptive research is concerned with how is or what exist is related to some preceding event
that has influenced or affected a present condition or event.
While according to Morrison et al. 2000: 169, survey study gathers data at a particular point in time with the intention of describing the nature of existing
conditions, or identifying standards against conditions which can be compared, or determining the relationships that exist between specifics events.
In this research, the researcher looked for the students’ perception on teaching learning activity in Book Report Course. It concerned on how the
teaching-learning processes in Book Report Course, how the assessments
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