Further Researches RESEARCH BENEFITS
“I think that the student interactions were very important – the initial meeting, the icebreaker the bird camp – it allowed us to actively form this
community of learners. We got into a collegial, non-competitive learning
environment where it wasn’t about who has the best grade, it’s about look we all gotta succeed.” Jacobs
For this participant, establishing good learning environment is desirable. He would like to cooperate with others to achieve success. The same thing is
mentioned by another participant named Chad. Liu 2008 mentions that he says, “I didn’t, I didn’t like it the distance education course as much as a traditional
class because I really didn’t … I didn’t talk to my classmates, I don’t know, I didn’t even talk to the teacher.” Instead of helping students, he feels that it is
burdensome. It is because he feels isolated from his friends. This study by Liu 2008 has revealed a few about transcendent meaning. The use of computers in
distant learning has influenced not only the learning process but also something which is more than it. The feeling of not being able to talk with somebody has
caused discomfort and loneliness. In relation with empirical and transcendent meaning that this study is
going to seek, the study conducted by Lin, Lin Groom 2013 has revealed empirical meaning which is about how technology makes writing and reviewing
lesson much easier. It has not revealed the transcendent meaning yet. On the other hand, the one conducted by Liu 2008 has revealed some information about
something which is not directly observable, which is the feeling that having good grade is not always at the top of learners’ priority list. It is about the learners’
feeling. However, this unobservable feeling is not about being transcendent or being self-actualized. Therefore, this research has an aim to seek the transcendent
meaning.
In local context, there are some studies about lived experience, two of which have highlighted the importance of learning media. The first studywas
conducted by Satesti 2010 who mentioned that the learning media which were provided in Self-Access Centre SAC created enjoyable learning atmosphere.
Students could control their own learning process. The learning media also enabled them to practice listening that they were able to improve their listening
skill. The second study was conducted by Setyawan 2013 who examined the teacher’s lived experience in teaching hearing impaired students. The text
obtained from the interview showed that the teacher did some efforts in order to adjust the materials because there were not any materials which specifically
develop to teach hearing impaired students. She also mentioned that learning medium was really needed for the sake of visualization of the objects that she was
talking about to help students learn more easily. Meanwhile, there are two studies which have been conducted before this
study. The first one was classroom action research conducted by Sastrikirana Hanardi 2014. The results showed that the mean before students learned using
IPALL was 55.5. After the students learned using IPALL the mean of the scores was 84.21, so the improvement was significant. Another study was conducted by
Hanardi 2015. She conducted a quasi experiment research. She used the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test and the results showed that P 0.05, so it is
significant.