Dewi’s Story Description of the Participants’ Lived Experiences
58 one of the hotels in Yogyakarta. She and her group sent a cover letter and were
welcomed warmly by the hotel staff. Soon after that, they conducted the interview and stated that they were going to create an English program for the hotel staff. At
that time, they interviewed the HRD Human Resource and Development representative as well as the receptionist. After conducting the interview, she and
her friends then decided to specifically create an English program for the receptionist only.
“My friends suggested me send a cover letter to the hotel. Then, we did send the letter and we were welcomed very warmly. After that, we did the
interview and stated that we were going to conduct an English program. At that time, we interviewed the HRD as well as the receptionist. Finally, we
then chose to specifically create the program for the receptionist only.” A7- D2-AS.
Having decided the participant for their English program, they were also requested to create a presentation as well as to present it weekly. She me
ntioned that “we were firstly given the materials for the presentations, and every week, we had to present
our progress based on the topic given”. A7-D6-COPG
Moreover, when they had presented their weekly presentations, they needed to present their program to the lecturers and their friends started with the
introduction of the program, the design of the program, the materials, and the theories that they used. From the presentations, they could gain many inputs not
only from the lecturers but also from their classmates. “After we presented our weekly presentations, we had to present our
program to our lecturers and our friends started with the introduction, the design, the materials, and also the theory. From that presentation, we could
gain many suggestions from not only the lecturer but also our friends.” A7- D16-L-CS
After they had finished designing the English program and the materials, she further told me that she and her friends did not apply the program to the receptionist.
59 However, they planned to give the materials to the receptionist after they obtained
the feedback for the materials from the lecturer. When doing group project in PMD class, she mentioned that she was very
happy working with her other two friends. She told me that when she was confused about a problem, her friend could help her solve the problem by sharing it to them
“When doing group project, if we got confused, there were our friends who could help us,
Mas
. In other words, we could share the problems to another group member.”A4-D58-FtFP
In other words, they could also handle the problems together “…What made me happy when doing group project was we could solve or
handle the problems together with our friend s.” A4-D60-GRP.
However, even though it was a group project, she also mentioned that she and her
friends divided the tasks evenly so that each of them had the same portion when doing the project
, as what Dewi stated “Yes,
Mas¸
each of us got our own pa rt”
A4-D49-IA. Additionally, since they had divided the task, they could enlarge their opportunity to improve their learning potentials. In the second interview, Dewi
stated that she and her friends, for instance, when doing the presentation, really read their own parts and maximized it before the presentation began.
“… For example, when doing presentation, whoever got the chapter, she must read it seriously. Me, I did the same thing as well. I would read the
chapter I got seriously. When I read seriously, they would also do the same
thing as me.” A7-D27-ENOP “Since my other two friends were diligent, so we all did maximize our effort,
Mas
”A7-D29-ENOP. Furthermore, Dewi added that by doing group projects she could be more
understanding to her frie nds’ needs, as well as her friends characters. In doing PMD
project, she mentioned that she could understand her friends’ needs since she and her friends did not stay close in the same area where she stayed. For instance, she
60 had to understand that one of the members in her group stay quite far from her
boarding house. Hence, she needed to arrange their time to discuss the project. Moreover, she also added that she could be closer to her friends and could
understand their characters as well. It happened because during the process of creating the project, they were always together so that they could understand each
other. “From the PMD project, I could learn to be more understanding to my
friends’ needs. For example, one of my friends stayed in
Kulonprogo
, and I n
eeded to arrange the time discuss our project.” A4-D70-UON “From PMD project, I could be closer to them since we were always
together for one semester. Moreover, I could understand their character as well.” A7-D23-UOCH
By doing projects as well, Dewi, could increase her self-esteem as well as her self-efficacy by becoming a tough woman. In addition, she could also be more
open minded during and after the project. She mentioned that she could be tougher in terms of doing her assignment and she could handle the pressure. She further
stated that she became a less panicky student when dealing with her projects or her assignments. She also became less stressful and became wiser in dealing with her
problems. In coping with her projects and her assignments, she could also handle the pressure well.
“I felt I became tougher since I could be less panicky when dealing with papers, and less stressful. Moreover, I felt like I was getting wiser each day
A4-D41-SEST. Not only was I getting wiser, but I could also handle the pressure A4-D41-
SEFF.” Being open-minded became the next thing she mentioned. During the completion
of her PMD project, she stated that after meeting and working with her friends she could be more open to them. Moreover, she could also accept
her friends’ opinions
61 or arguments and she realized that she could not insist her friends to accept her
expectation. “After PMD project, I could be more open to my friends since I worked with
them” Moreover, I could accept my friends’ arguments or opinions and I realized that I could not insist my expectations to my friends. A7-D25-OM
The last thing she mentioned was after completing ther PMD project, she and her group could present their paper in the LLTC seminar in the ELESP Sanata
Dharma University. She uttered that by being involved in the seminar she could give benefits not only to herself, but also to her friends as well. She stated that “by
doing projects we were able to present our paper in the LLTC seminar. So I felt like this also gave us benefits A7-D29-
SEM.” In sum, from Dewi’s Story, I found out that the PMD project when she was
in the second semester was her memorable experience. When doing the PMD project, she needed to conduct or design an English program for Hotel receptionist
in Yogyakarta as her group project. During the completion of her project, she had quite a lot of experiences, such as working in group with her friends, maximizing
the use of other resources as a means of finding appropriate materials for the receptionist, gaining inputs or feedbacks from her classmates, and learning how to
improve her learning potentianls. In addition, through PMD project, she could be more understanding to her friends, be more open-minded, and be a presenter in a
seminar.