English. Total Means
3.6 Note: No. = Item Number, SD = Strongly Disagree, DA = Disagree, UD
= Undecided, A = Agree, SA =Strongly Agree We see in table 8 that the vast majority, i.e. 93 agreed that the
learners have to be responsible for their own ways of practicing English. Similarly, a vast majority 87 agreed that learners should use much self-
study materials to learn. Analyzing the responses to item 21; we can observe that 70 have agreed to the statement. Item 22 was to find out
what they viewed regarding whether learners mostly have to study has been mentioned under their course. The analysis shows that a majority
68 disagreed it. The table above finally shows the learner s‟ responses
on building their vision of learning before learning English. Majority or 70 agreed that they should build clear vision before learning. The grand
mean for the category is 3.6.
b. The role of teacher
Beliefs about teach ers‟ role refer to definite views about what
constitutes effective or ineffective teaching including their specific expectation as how teacher teach and what their roles and responsibilities
are as: you cant learn very much from other learners in groups and its useful for the teacher to correct all the mistakes I make in my writing
Richards and Lockhart, 2005. The table 4.9 below shows the result of items related with
teachers‟ role. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
Table 4.9. The role of teacher
No .
Items Response
Means
SD 1
DA 2
UD 3
A 4
SA 5
24. A lot of learning can be done
without a teacher. 6
24 32
38 4.02
25. Teachers have to be responsible for
making learners understand
English. 20
28 22
30 3.12
26. Teachers should point out the
learner s‟ errors.
5 77
18 4.18
27. Teachers not only have to teach
„what‟ but should also teach „how‟
of English. 12
24 56
8 3.6
28. Teachers have to provide exam
oriented notes and materials.
32 22
22 13
11 2.49
29. The failure of the learners is directly
related to
the teachers‟
classroom employment.
6 47
24 10
13 2.77
Total Means 3.5
Note: No. = Item Number, SD = Strongly Disagree, DA = Disagree, UD = Undecided, A = Agree, SA =Strongly Agree
Table 4.9 shows that the great number of learners, i.e. 70 agreed to the fact that a lot of learning can be done without a teacher.
Among them, 6 disagreed the statement; while 24 of them could not decide on it. Regarding the teachers‟ responsibility to make learners
understand item 25, majority of them i.e. 52 agreed on it. Item 26 was included in the tool to find out the role of teachers in error
correction. It can be observed in the table that for 95 , it is the teachers‟
responsibility to do so. Item 27 above was designed to investigate how learners to
ok that the teachers need to teach both the „what„content and
„how‟ process of learning. A majority 64 agreed the statement. The table also shows that item 28 was agreed only by 70 of the
learners. Most of them, i.e. 54 thought that teachers should not provide exam oriented notes and materials. The 22 of the learners remained
undecided. The final item mentioned above i.e. item 29 was designed to find out the connection of the learner
s‟ failure with the teachers‟ classroom implementation. Around 53 did not agree it but 23 agreed
it. The overall mean is 3.5.
B. DISCUSSION
1. The Learners’ Belief about Autonomy in Learning
The findings of the study show that learners are found to be aware of the goals and the process of learning English, it could be drawn from the
mean score of 3.076 out of 5. It was also shown that with the means score of 3.396 out of 5 learners show that majority of them has done self-
efforts to improve and enhance their English. Learners besides their classroom activities perform many autonomous activities outside the
class such as use of libraries, listening and watch audio-visual materials PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
in English but are not found recording their voices. More than 66 learners assessed themselves though did not effort much to motivate self.
Majority of the learners made use of reference materials, however, the modern technologies were used less. Only around 30 of the learners do
not use computers and internet for learning English. More than 80 learners perceived their own role as a great means to learning English.
They took it that, for learning mostly a learner has to be responsible. They took learning much as a part of learner efforts and also thought
that they need to go beyond their learning of prescribed materials. They took the teachers‟ role as an important component of their learning.
Though most of them agreed that a lot of learning can be done without teachers- the teachers should bring them out of the classroom learning.
More than 74 teachers not only thought but also found as part of their experiences that autonomous learners were the „good learners‟ in every
case. These were also the situations from which they judged autonomy in learning. Regarding the teachers‟ role in such learning they take that it
should be that of a facilitator. All the teachers felt that autonomous learning is the basis of better proficiency and performance, and it is quite
beneficial. The results suggest that Learners are not completely passive in
their language learning. Most of the learners realize they themselves play crucial roles in language learning, and greater responsibility should be
laid on their shoulders in language learning; however, they need help and advice from the teachers. Besides, learner
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