6 group presentation technique which was implemented by the lecturer could be
used to improve the teaching-learning activity in class.
3. Other researchers
The result of this research will be expected to give clear description of perception toward the contribution of group presentation. This research, also, will
encourage other researchers to conduct further research on the contribution of group presentation.
F. Definition of Terms
In order to make common conception to the readers about some terms used in this research, the researcher defines them as followed:
1. Perception
Altman, Valenzi, and Hodgetts. 1985: 85 state that “perception is the way stimuli are selected and grouped by a person so that they can be meaningfully
interpreted”. It is like person’s view of reality. Meanwhile, Huffman and Vernoy 2000:
107
define perception as “a process of selecting, organizing and interpreting sensory data into useful mental representation of the world”. Each
person may have different view about an object. Perception is important because student’s behavior is based on their perceptions. In other words, perception in this
research based on those two definitions is what they think and feel about what they have experienced after the process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting
stimuli sensory data, which in this case is the learners’ perception of the
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Communication Class.
2. Group Presentation
Mackey 1965: 228 states that “presentation means communicating something to somebody”. Cassie and Constantine 1977 state that presentation means that
someone speaks in public. Presentation in this research is one of the learning techniques to present knowledge that the presenter has learned to the audience.
The presentation in this research is done in group.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter presents a discussion on related literature as the theoretical base upon which the research outlined in Chapter 1 is conducted. There are some
important discussions of the main variables that are used in this research. Literature review is divided into two parts, namely theoretical description and
theoretical framework.
A. Theoretical Description
In theoretical description, the researcher presents six points: 1 Teaching technique, 2 The definition of group work and its characteristics, 3 The
definition of presentation and its characteristics, 4 The definition of perception and perceptual process 5 The definition of cooperative learning and its benefits.
The second part is theoretical framework.
1. Teaching Technique
In language teaching, there are three levels of conceptualization and organization Anthony, 1963. Those are approach, method and technique.
Approach can be said as a set of correlative assumptions. It deals with the nature of subject matter to be taught. Meanwhile, method is procedural plan for the
orderly presentation of language material. It can be said that there can be many methods in one approach. Then, a technique is the implementation of classroom
