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the grammar rules, while the best thing was when she could do the assignment well and understand the materials.
e. Intention
This part shared about Laura’s intention in the coming events in her life. She mentioned that through learning English it can enable her to go abroad. By doing so,
she can improve her ability related to her interest. QL37: “…….Do you have any willingness to go abroad?”
AL37: “Yes, I want to increase my ability related to computer and communication.”
She intended to continue her study abroad. Her willingness was in line with her major, which was computer technique.
The last description was about Angel’s personal lived experience. She was one of the students who took Gas Manufacture and Petroleum Engineering as her
major. Herewith the description about her understanding, belief, feeling, action, and intention.
3. Angel’s Personal Lived Experience
The same as the two previous participants, Angel was interviewed with the five constructs. It was started with understanding.
a. Understanding
This part talked about Angel’s understanding of text. The researcher asked about the types of texts in English.
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QA10: “So far, can you mention the text types?” AA10: “Procedure, descriptive, narrative, application letter, then, I
forget …hehe.” QA30:”When learning about descriptive text, what did you describe?”
AA30: “I described anything. People, things.” QA10-AA30UM.
In relation to Angel’s understanding, it was about mentioning the text types. She described anything in her previous grade. It could be people, it could be things.
b. Belief
This dialog contained of her belief in learning English in vocational high school. She shared about her experience in learning English.
QA12: “Is it hard to learn English in this school?” AA12: “Actually, learning English at Vocational high School is not that
difficult, because the materials learnt are not as deep as they who study in General High School. The difference is our demands are more than
theirs. Especially when we face our materials which connect to the field of our study. For instance, I am majoring in Gas Manufacture and
Petroleum Engineering. So the lessons that I get are more or less about it. In addition, it has got a predicate by people that this school serves
good quality for many aspects like the curriculum, facilities, teachers, and teaching and learning process so that I choose this school. Because
of the good predicate which is given to our school, so that we have to take the responsible of that.”
QA12-AA12BM. Angel believed that learning her experience in learning English in the
vocational high school was not that hard. Having the same view as Egi and Laura, Angel argued that the general lessons learnt in this school were not as deep as the
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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
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