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QL17-AL17,QL36-AL36UG Laura stated her understanding of learning English. She noticed that learning
English could change people. Some of them became more sociable. It was because when we learnt about language, indirectly we also learnt about the culture.
Meanwhile, the western culture had been open-minded. QL61: “…Can you mention what happens in orientation and the
following parts in narrative text?” AL61: “Alright. Orientation is the introduction of the story. It is
continued by complication, where the problem and conflict are found. Resolution is the highest of problems and where the problems are solved.
The last is reorientation, where we can find lesson of the story.”
QL61-AL61UM Following the dialog, Laura presented her understanding about one of the text
types, which was narrative. She mentioned and explained its generic structure. It was right understanding. She understood the material well. Furthermore, belief was
presented.
b. Belief
Laura’s belief was quite the same as Egi’s. They believed that learning English was somewhat easy. But, sometimes, she found difficulties.
QL08: “Do you think it is hard to follow English lesson in this school?” AL08: “No, I don’t think so. It’s quite easy for me to learn English here.”
QL09: “Do you find any difficulties?” AL09: “Hmm, maybe, I often forget about the structure rule.”
AL11:”……….and also about unfamiliar material. I usually get confused. Moreover, when the assignment is given but not yet taught.”
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AL12: “In my opinion, the difficult ones are tenses.” QL08-AL08BS, QL09-AL09BM
The dialog above showed that Laura was able to follow English lesson. But somehow, she found that tenses were difficult because it contained the rules.
QL18: “Is English helpful in your daily life? Can you tell me from the beginning you enter this school.”
AL18: “Yes, it’s really helpful. In the first grade, I learnt about tense. Actually I liked it, but sometimes it makes me difficult to remember.”
QL19: “Oh ya I see. Can you please mention one of the text types that is really important for you? Is that procedure, in describing how to make
something, or anything else?”
AL19: “Yes, for me, procedure text is important in giving steps of how to use or how to make something in English.”
QL20: “Alright. Can you give example of that?” AL20: “Sure. For instance, how to make something or how to use
medicine.” QL21: “So it is the prescription, right. Beside procedure text, is there any
other text types that you believe can help you much in your life?” AL21: “Narrative and descriptive, because they contain of stories from
western.” QL22: “Ok. Besides, is there any other benefit by learning those text
types? For instance, they make you love more in English, or they can build up your vocabularies?”
AL22: “Yes, it can enrich my vocabularies. It is useful for my vocabulary input in English.”
QL18-AL22BG Laura stated that learning procedure text has essential meaning for her. She
said that it was useful for giving the instruction. Besides, narrative and descriptive were also believed could contribute the important roles, such as western knowledge
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