Action Egi’s Personal Lived Experience

61 and talk to his wife. And then his wife making a wish, and then the man going to the river again and met the fish and talking about his wife’s wish. And then the fish make his wife’s wishes to become true, and then, but the wife is not satisfied about what the fish giving to her. Then, he made another wishes and more and more, and then the fish become angry. Finally the fish clear all her wishes and their lives become start from the begging.” AE43AS. He practiced it without any preparation. The researcher just asked him to tell one of the text types and he chose short story. It was done on Friday, 5 th February when the first interview was done. There was a little mistake in grammar especially in the tenses. The diction was quite different but he could cover the gist. Overall, he could show that learning text in English gave lived experience for him. After telling the story, he explained about the value that we could grab.

e. Intention

Intention talked about the willingness of the participants. In this part, Egi stated his intent after learning English at the formal school. AE61: “……..I will keep learning English to build up my knowledge in order to make my dreams come true.” AE61IG. Egi identified his willingness to continue learning English after he graduated. He felt lucky to be one of the SMK N 2 Depok students because it served good subjects. He was not only good in lessons related to his major but also the other subjects especially English. Learning English particularly learning text, gave life meaning he could never get by the other subjects. 62 The next participant, Laura, described her personal lived experience during learning in TKJB class. The s ame as Egi, Laura’s personal lived experience also divided into five constructs; understanding, belief, feeling, action, and intention.

2. Laura’s Personal Lived Experience

Laura was one of the students majoring in Computer Science and Network Engieering. She was in the same grade as Egi, XII. The first interview was completed one day after Egi, which was on Saturday, 6 th February 2016. The second interview was done in August, 2016. Her personal lived experience was presented in this part.

a. Understanding

This part discussed about the Laura ’s understanding on learning English. Also, it tells about her understanding on learning texts in English and then sharing her lived experience. The first learnt material was application letter. Since she took her major in computer science, the English material was proceed in computer. In the middle of the semester, she began to learn tenses in English. After that, in the end of the first semester, she learnt procedure text. Seeing her story of learning English, the researcher then asked for further questions. QL17: “But overall, you understand about the materials delivered by the English teacher, right?” AL17: “Yes, I do.” QL36: ……….”Then, from learning English, do you think that there is good change in your life? Is there any positivity?” AL36: “Yes, sure. As I read in psychology’s book, if we spend a lot of time using English, we can be more sociable. Especially when we meet new people, there is no reluctance anymore.” 63 QL17-AL17,QL36-AL36UG Laura stated her understanding of learning English. She noticed that learning English could change people. Some of them became more sociable. It was because when we learnt about language, indirectly we also learnt about the culture. Meanwhile, the western culture had been open-minded. QL61: “…Can you mention what happens in orientation and the following parts in narrative text?” AL61: “Alright. Orientation is the introduction of the story. It is continued by complication, where the problem and conflict are found. Resolution is the highest of problems and where the problems are solved. The last is reorientation, where we can find lesson of the story.” QL61-AL61UM Following the dialog, Laura presented her understanding about one of the text types, which was narrative. She mentioned and explained its generic structure. It was right understanding. She understood the material well. Furthermore, belief was presented.

b. Belief

Laura’s belief was quite the same as Egi’s. They believed that learning English was somewhat easy. But, sometimes, she found difficulties. QL08: “Do you think it is hard to follow English lesson in this school?” AL08: “No, I don’t think so. It’s quite easy for me to learn English here.” QL09: “Do you find any difficulties?” AL09: “Hmm, maybe, I often forget about the structure rule.” AL11:”……….and also about unfamiliar material. I usually get confused. Moreover, when the assignment is given but not yet taught.” QL12:”Can you give example of the difficult material?” PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI