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Accordingly, 18 of them did not have self confidence when the tests were administered. Furthermore, 13 students were not serious when doing the tests.
b. Students’ Perceptions Based on Interview
The researcher conducted an interview in order to verify the students’ perceptions as described in the questionnaire results. There were six students who
had been interviewed. Most participants admitted that they were interested in the implementation of weekly tests. Three participants, namely student A, student C
and student D confessed that they were really interested in the implementation of weekly tests since it encouraged them to study more seriously. They also added
that they would not have studied hard unless having weekly tests. It was clearly described that they had positive perceptions about weekly tests.
The researcher found one interviewee who had a fairly positive perception on weekly tests. Student B declared that until the middle of semester, he was still
interested in weekly tests. However, at the end he found himself bored with the same type of the tests. In addition, there were two students perceiving the weekly
tests negatively. Student E and student F argued that to have weekly tests was burdening. Both of them felt that it was really hard to have test every week. This
situation made them lazy and bored instead of being enthusiastic and interested. Moreover, there were five participants, namely student A, student B,
student C, student D and student F, who admitted they were highly motivated and confident enough when doing the weekly tests. To be detailed, they had high
motivation since they wished to attain high scores in the tests as well. High motivation also contributed to their self confidence during the tests. Most of them
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felt that it was not necessary to cheat. They were sure with their own answers. Besides, it was not possible for them to cheat since the lecturer was extremely
strict and he did not tolerate any kinds of cheating. In contrast, student E was one participant who was not motivated to do the
weekly tests. Further, he also felt not confident during the tests. Having no motivation to master vocabularies made him unprepared to deal with the weekly
tests. This situation was the major reason why he was not confident anytime he had to deal with weekly tests.
It was interesting to find out that four participants of the research were tense during the tests. Student A, student B, student C and student D felt the same
condition when doing the weekly tests. They were nervous since the situation of the tests was tightening. To be more detailed, student C, one of the participants
stated that the situation of the tests was horrifying. He declared that the lecturer could notice every single movement which happened in the classroom.
c. Discussion
Founded on the data acquired from the questionnaire and interview, obviously it could be witnessed that most students perceived the implementation
of weekly tests positively. The majority of them was in the same opinion about the process of teaching learning in the class. However, it was indisputable that a small
number of students perceived the process of teaching learning in class negatively. In this section, the researcher discussed about how the students perceived the
process of teaching learning in the class further. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
