is there any penalty if students don’t do their homeworks? Have you ever studied English out of the school time or outside the school area? If you find new words from lyrics or movies in English do you ever search What will you do if you encounter any dif
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S1: I will do it only if I understand it. IS114614LLF-A and LEF-SF
She also added that she and some of her friends usually do or finish the homework at school before the class starts. She told the researcher that she usually
comes earlier to the school and brings the homework as she wants to discuss the answer with her friends. The researcher believes that Tiwi is not aware of the
importance of homework for English learning process as an instrument to help student‘s self-learning at home. Here is what she said.
R: is there any penalty if students don’t do their homeworks?
S1: there are penalties. I will usually go earlier to school to ask friends about the homeworks
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Tiwi later said that she rarely studies out of the school hour or out of the classroom. She told the researcher that she only pays attention to the lesson in the
classroom. By rarely learning English out of the school hour and area, Tiwi is considered to have low awareness on self-learning using school material.Below is
what she said in the interview.
R: Have you ever studied English out of the school time or outside the school area?
S1:
I have ever done it… but not too often
R: I see. Is it out of the school hour? S1: yes, out of it.
R: how about within the school hour? S1: we are supposed to pay attention to the teacher
’s explanation within the school hour.
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It is also revealed that Tiwi sometimes learns English from lyrics and movie by trying to translate several words. In this situation, the researcher finds that Tiwi is
86 still managed to learn English by herself from English lyrics or movies. In this
case, Tiwi‘s awareness can be indicated. The conversation is below.