30 calculated the questionnaire data into percentage. The formula of percentage
calculation was as follow:
in which : ∑ x = the number of the students based on the degree of agreement
∑ n = the number of all the students After finding the degree of agreement percentage of each statement, the
researcher analyzed the data by using this table:
Table 3.1 Example 1 of Table of Questionnaire
No Statements
Frequencies of Responses Strongly
Agree Agree
Disagree Strongly
Disagree
2. Interview Data
After analyzing the questionnaire, the data from the interview was analyzed by writing the conversation between the researcher and the respondents,
summarizing and concluding the answers. The researcher provided five questions as the main questions for the interview and chose five students to be interviewed.
The researcher wrote the transcription of the interviews to present clearer conversation. Therefore,
the students’ perception on student-teacher consultation in academic essay writing course and the influences of student-teacher
x 100
31 consultation on
students’ writing proficiency can be explained clearly. In addition, the researcher provided three questions which were asked to the lecturer in order
to get further information related to the implementation of consultation in AEW.
F. Research Procedures
In this study, there were three steps in conducting this research. The steps were 1 distributing the questionnaire, 2 interviewing the lecturer and the
students of Academic Essay Writing course, 3 analyzing and interpreting the data results.
1. Distributing the Questionnaire
The questionnaires were distributed to the students after the midterm test on 13 November 2014. The researcher distributed the questionnaires to all AEW
students in class F who did the consultation. To avoid the inefficient in learning process, the researcher distributed the questionnaires after the class finish. Since
this study is about perception and the influences of the consultation, the researcher did not gave chance for students to bring home the questionnaire so that the
students answered the questionnaire directly in the class to avoid uncompleted questionnaires back. After getting all the questionnaires back, the researcher
started to analyze it.
2. Interviewing the Lecturer and the Students of Academic Essay
