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3. For Students of Sanata Dharma University
The findings of this research also hopefully will be beneficial for the students of Sanata Dharma University, especially for English Language Education
Study Program students as the teacher candidates. The findings may help English Language Education Study Program ELESP students become more motivated in
making a good relation with lecturers since it has significant role in the teaching- learning process. Moreover, in the future as the teacher candidates, they can
implement self-fulfilling prophecy as the best strategy in conducting the teaching and learning process. Then, they can improve their stud
ents’ motivation or performance through self-fulfilling prophecy.
4. For the Future Researchers
The findings of this research hopefully can be used to carry out other research about self-fulfilling prophecy implementation. The result can also be
used as a reference in conducting further research about the related topic. They can implement the result to see whether self-fulfilling prophecy is needed to be
improved by lecturers. Then, the future researchers can conduct a research on self- fulfilling prophecy from different points of view
such as students’ perception on the implementation of self-fulfilling prophecy.
F. Definitions of Terms
In analyzing the research, there are some key terms that will be explained in this section. The objective is to avoid any misinterpretation and
misunderstanding that might happen when the readers read this thesis. Therefore,
9 this section carefully defines each concept that will be used in this thesis. The
following key terms are described as follows.
1. Perceptions
Altman, Valenzi, and Hodgetts 1985 define perceptions as the way stimuli are selected and grouped by a person so that they can be meaningfully
interpreted. What people think about the world’s phenomena may be called as
perceptions. In addition, George and Jones 2005 claim the perceptions as the process by which individual select, organize, and interpret the input from their
senses vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste to give meaning and order to the world around them.
In this research, the researcher deals with the perceptions of ELESP lecturers on the implementation of self-fulfilling prophecy toward ELESP
students. Their perceptions cover their opinions, feeling, and thoughts related to the implementation of self-fulfilling prophecy.
2. Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Self-fulfilling prophecy is defined as a Pygmalion Effect or Rosenthal effect. This research is focused on self-fulfilling prophecy which is implemented
in educational area between lecturers and students. Pygmalion effect comes from the term of self-fulfilling prophecy as Merton 1948 originally states. It means
that students perform in ways the teacher expects. Lecturers’ expectation, whether
it is high or low becomes self-fulfilling prophecy. Rosenthal and Jacobson 1968,
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