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1. Dipta’s Description
In this part, I present Dipta’s personal profile to have a closer look to his personality.
It is important because someone’s background can influence the way one reacts and acts to certain phenomena.
Dipta’s story about his lived experience in joining web-based vocabulary class is also presented in this part.
a. Dipta’s Profile
Dipta was twenty years old when he took part in this research. Dipta was originally from Yogyakarta. He lived in Bantul with his parents. He was the first
child in the family and he had a younger sister. His father was from Bedono, Ambarawa and his mother was from Bantul. His father was the head of librarian
in Sanata Dharma University. His mother was the vice headmaster in SMK Putra Tama. He described his parents as hardworking persons and he said that his
parents were good real model for him. Dipta graduated from De Britto Senior High School before he decided to
continue his study in Sanata Dharma University. He chose PBI in Sanata Dharma because he wanted to be a teacher. He realized that the occupation of being a
teacher had more working opportunities than other occupations. Another reason of choosing PBI Sanata Dharma was because he thought that English was fun. His
special interest about learning English is in speaking and listening. Dipta was such a sociable person. He was quite active in campus activities and often took part as a
committee when campus held some events. When this study was being held, he was very busy preparing a play entitled Jaga Daru and he was one of the actors in
the play. He also became one of the committee of English Action Day at that time. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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Dipta decided to take vocabulary course to complete his elective course because he thought that he could easily get good mark to boost his GPA in this
class. He never thought that he would face a lot of challenging tasks to complete this course well. However, he realized that vocabulary is important to support his
English mastery.
b. Dipta’s Story
Dipta was already familiar with internet and websites. However, using ELTGallery in vocabulary learning was something new for him. As he usually had
fun activities in exploring websites, Dipta also looked forward to have the same things with ELTGallery. Yet, he experienced that vocabulary learning with
ELTGallery was not as fun as he imagined before. DA2: ELTGallery should help me more in learning vocabulary in
a fun way, miss. So it’s not merely memorizing the words and doing some quizzes but it provides games or something
similar to it to review the words that we have memorized.
Q3: Then, did it meet your expectation? Did you find it fun?
DA3: Not really, actually. It tends to be boring. Q4: Why do you think it is boring? ELTGallery provided you with
various activities, right? DA4: Yes, there were so many activities that we should do in
ELTGallery, miss. But, I don’t know… I felt bored. Perhaps because of the layout or maybe the situation in class. It was
not really fun.
However, Dipta could still do many things in ELTGallery to improve his vocabulary knowledge. He learnt spelling and improved his ability to understand
meaning in written texts from the word list provided in one of the features in ELTGallery. Further, he did something more to back up the things which had not
been available in ELTGallery’s features such as pronunciation, word formation, phrases, spoken text and using the words in correct contexts.
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