Validation Technique ANALYSIS RESULTS

occurrence. These findings reveal that most participants hold positive perception towards English teaching-learning including its components. Research results on learning style were presented through RS17, RS18, RS19, RS20 and RS21. However, considering that the number of research conducted on this issue was limited, the occurrence of those results is also in a small number. RS17 has 1.7 of occurrence, which is the highest among five classifications of research result on learning style. The rest results have the same occurrence which is only 0.9. These findings indicate that English educational research on learning style had yielded various results. In terms of learning strategy, the research results were classified into three classifications namely RS13, RS22, and RS23. Among the three classifications, RS22 dominates the occurrence with 6. RS23 is in the second place with 3.4 of occurrence. The last is RS13 with only 1.7 of occurrence. Despite the small number of research on this topic, these findings indicate that learning strategy is an inseparable learning factor affecting English teaching and learning. As seen from the research results, students employed various types of learning strategy in learning English. Besides, several researchers had confirmed that this learning factor affected students’ achievement in learning English. Research results on each of these topics i.e. confidence, preference, creativity, tolerance and honesty was classified into one classification only. In terms of occurrence, all of them receive low percentage. As seen in the Table 4.3, RS24 about confidence has 0.9 of occurrence, RS25 about preference has 2.6 of occurrence, RS26 about creativity has 1.7 of occurrence, and both RS27 about tolerance and RS28 about honesty have 0.9 of occurrence. These findings indicate that research on these topics had revealed different and specific truth.

B. DISCUSSION

This section discusses the interpretation of the findings presented in the previous section. To achieve precise discussion, this section is divided into two parts, namely the trends of research on attitude and related learning factors in English education and the relation between the research trends and Competence- based Learning.

1. The Trends of Research on Attitude and Related Learning Factors in

English Education The results of the research contents presented in the previous section become a source to discover the trends of research on attitude and related learning factors in English education. Before going further into the discussion, the summary of the results for each category is presented in the following table. Table 4.4: The Summary of the Analysis Results No. Category The Dominant Findings

1 Investigated Topic

- Motivation - Perception - Attitude 2 Concept Clarification Most of them shared the similar concept of the investigated topics 3 Related Topic - Teaching method - English skills - English knowledge 4 Origin Indonesia

5 Participant

University student 6 Research Goal To find out participants’ motivation, perception, attitude, belief, learning style and learning strategy