B. Theoretical Framework
Perception is a factor that influence successful learning since it influences someone’s motivation to learn and behavior or attitudes. The first grade Junior
High School students’ perception on English teaching learning activities are important since they influence students’ motivation to learn English and positive
behavior in English learning activities. The first grade Junior High School students have different way in perceiving something because it is influenced by
their emotion and interest which are not stable yet. Researching first grade Junior High School students’ perception is
important. The result of the research could be used to improve the quality of the English teaching-learning activities applied in schools. Besides, the result also
could be used to measure the effectiveness of the teaching learning activities used in school and the effect for the students, additionally they will face the national
examination that for years it is such kind of threat for students. There are three research questions in this study. The first research
questions deals with the implementation of teaching learning activities in the classroom. The implementation of the teaching learning activities needs to be
observed in order to find out the cause of the students’ perception. In order to find out the answer to this problem, some theories are used to help the researcher to
conduct some observations. The first theory is the definition of teaching. It is employed to help the researcher to find out what teaching is. The second theory is
teaching learning activities. These theories help the researcher to determine points
of teaching-learning activities that need to be noticed during the observations. The result of the observation, then analyzed, interpreted and written in paragraph.
The second research question concerns with the students’ perception on the English teaching learning activity used in Sekolah Alam. Students’ perception
on English teaching learning activities needs to be observed in order to find the answer of this problem. In order to find out the answer, some theories are
employed to help the researcher to conduct some observation. The first is theory of perception. It is employed in order to help the researcher to find out what
perception is and how each of people gets their perception about things around him. In researching students’ perception there are some points need to be noticed.
First is definition of perception. It is used to help the researcher know what exactly perception is. Second are factors that influence perception. These theories
help the writer to find out factors that cause a student to have a certain perception about particular things around him. Besides that, there are some important theories
employed in this research, they are Competence Based Curriculum, Experiential Learning, and Problem Solving. These theories help researcher to determine
points of teaching-learning activities that need to be noticed during the observations. The result of the questionnaire then is coded, analyzed, interpreted
and written in the paragraph. The third research question concerns with the participants’ thought about a
good teaching learning activity. In order to answer this problem, the researcher employed interviews. Methodologies that are used to find out the answers to the
three problems stated before would be discussed further in the next chapter.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter discusses the methods of the study. It is also discusses the certain analysis used to prove the research from the data gathering. This chapter is
divided into five parts of discussion. They are the Research Method, Research Setting, Research Participants
,
Research Instruments
, Data Gathering and
Data Analysis.
A. Research Methods
In order to answer the research problems, the researcher employedsurvey method in this study. According to Fraenkel and Wallen 1994: 11 survey is a
research in which the researchers summarize the characteristics of individual or groups, such as abilities, preferences, and behavior or characteristics of physical
environment. Since this study investigated the students’ perception on the teaching English activities, survey method was an appropriate method to be
conducted. This study gathered the data by asking the students’ of Sekolah Alam Nurul Islam
Yogyakarta. The data was about the students’ perception on the English teaching learning activity. The data were obtained in the form of
qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data were in the form of the result of interview and the quantitative data were the data from the result of
questionnaires.
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