Intention Angel’s Personal Lived Experience

80 majoring computer”. So, she wanted to continue her study in the same major. Whereas, Egi and Angel desired to work after they finish their study in vocational high school. In her statement AA25, Angel identified her reason of choosing Gas Manufacture and Petroleum Engineering as her major. It was a new major when she entered that school. She had two options to choose her major, in technical or industrial field. Finally, she chose Gas Manufacture and Petroleum Engineering as her major. Egi, because he was the first child in his family, wanted to work in minefield. But if there would be an opportunity, he would look for scholarship to continue his study in university level. Another reason of choosing this school was the good predicate that was given to SMK N 2 Depok Sleman. In her talk AA12, Angel said that it was quite hard to study in this school. It was not because the teachers were killer or the lesson contained undisciplined material, but vice versa. This school provided good facilities, experienced teachers, well-arranged materials, and good services. Therefore, the students had to fight during their studies in this school. They needed at least 3.6 years to study. 3 years for learning in the school, and the rest was for internship or industrial working. Internship or industrial working was done 6 months – 1 year where the students were intended to pass apprenticeship. Generally, the reasons provided by the students were the same. They had the same vision and mission in studying in the vocational high: to prepare themselves better in the entrepreneur field Altinok, 2012. They consented to spend their four years in vocational high in order to be professional in the fields that they had chosen. Besides, Hanushek et al. 2015 also imply that education at a vocational school earns 81 trade and the constraint of career. Accordingly, the students were proud to be vocational high school students. This circumstance led them to the evidence that there were a number of subjects they had to deal with. Therefore, the interpretation was continued by their lived experience in acquiring difficulties and easiness during their study.

b. Acquiring difficulties and easiness

Learning English at vocational high school, somehow, was not easy nor difficult. The most important was the good maintenance of time studying the different majors. The students had passed learning English since they were in the X grade in this school. Since they came from different majors of study, the stories of each student were rather different. It was quite difficult but somehow it was easy. Egi, in his view of learning English, found that English was the same as the other subjects. In his statement AE03-AE10, he identified that he enjoyed learning English. Also, he did not find any problem when dealing with English. He said that “If there is problem, maybe it’s just about the vocabulary” AE09. Hence, his trouble was more or less about vocabulary. When he faced the vocabulary which was unfamiliar, he would be difficult to do the English task. He liked learning English since junior high school. Learning English for him was interesting and fun. Egi ever joined the competition which was held by the school. It was debate competition. He and his team, who consisted of three students, had passed semi-final stage. It was a good achievement. In the class, both the students and the teacher used full English. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI