Due to this reason, the writer, who was conducting teaching practice, started implementing dialogue journals in her classrooms.
This study is then aimed to find out students’ perceptions on the use of dialogue journals of the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Depok and to present
suggestions which can contribute to the improvement of the implementation of dialogue journals.
B. Problem Formulation
The research problems can be formulated as follows: 1.
What are the perceptions of the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Depok on the use of dialogue journals in their class?
2. What are the students’ suggestions to improve the implementation of dialogue
journals?
C. Problem Limitation
The use of dialogue journals of the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Depok may lead the students to have various perceptions on it. This research is
focused on two things, namely, the students’ perceptions on the use of dialogue journals as communication media for the tenth grade students, and finding out and
presenting some suggestions for the improvement of the implementation of dialogue journals in learning English subject.
This research was conducted at SMAN 1 Depok, one of the State Senior High Schools in Yogyakarta. Researcher chose the tenth grade students of
20082009 academic year of SMAN 1 Depok because the researcher has implemented dialogue journals in their classes. The researcher has chosen two
classes to be researched.
D. Research Objectives
The objectives of this research are as follows: 1.
To know and find out the tenth grade students’ perceptions on the use of dialogue journals of SMAN 1 Depok.
2. To obtain the students’ suggestions for the improvement of the implementation
of dialogue journals.
E. Research Benefits
The findings of the research hopefully will be beneficial for English teachers of SMAN 1 Depok and English teachers in general, and other researchers
who are interested in conducting research about dialogue journals. 1.
English Teachers The result of this research hopefully will be beneficial to English teachers
of SMAN 1 Depok and English teachers in general. The English teachers are able to know deeper about dialogue journals media from the students’
perceptions on the implementation of dialogue journals. Thus, they can reflect the result of the research to their teaching-learning activities whether they want
to apply these media in their classroom. Hence, this research will give the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
contribution to improve their teaching-learning activities especially in building a good communication to students.
2. Other researchers
This research hopefully will be beneficial for other researchers who would like to conduct similar research and interested in the implementation of dialogue
journals. They can use this research as their reference.
F. Definition of Terms
