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60 completed with the copies of handouts for her students. But she felt a little bit frustrated because of that. She felt burdensome because according to the syllabus she had to give material and handouts to the students at their first meeting directly. She did not like giving many copies of handouts to her students but in the end they were not used by the students. She was a little bit disappointed because of that. She agreed with Mr. Supar that at the beginning of semester at the first meeting the teacher should focus on the introduction of syllabus and the class foundations or rules. “I sometimes followed the syllabus given by the faculty. There was Introduction topic in the first meeting completed with the copies of handouts for her students. But I felt a little bit... frustrated because I felt burdensome because I should directly give the material to the students at their first meeting. I did not like giving many copies of handouts to my students but in the end they were not used at all by the students. I was a little bit disappointed because of that. I agreed with Mr. Supar that at the beginning of semester, at the first meeting the teacher should focus on the introduction of syllabus and the class foundations or rules “ 2-V2-1-ET-T-DIS. In her class, she applied a kind of system. She really underlined the word ‘education’. Educating for her was not only teaching but education in the sense of teaching. At the beginning of the semester, her students were fresh graduate of senior high school. They had not got the culture of university students yet so they were easy to be directed to built the culture. When they were in the fourth semester they had already a culture such as being late was okay and thought that English class was easy. Here Ms. Vero was aware that she got a power to change these students’s mindset. Therefore she put a foundation in her first meeting because the first meeting of her English class was important for her. It was the foundation for the whole semester. So at first she set the goal together with the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 61 students. The goal was about learning process and how to learn English in her class: “The first was about goal, about learning itself, and also how to learn English“ 3-V11-2-ET-T-AW. In her first meeting she agreed with Mr. Supar, the head of accounting department that in the first meeting she had to tell the students the syllabus first, everything related to teaching learning process for that one semester, what the would do that semester, how would they do it, and the class rules. So when she entered the classroom for the first time at that time, the students underestimated her. They thought that she was only an assistant of their English teacher because she looked so young with her small and not really tall body. Then she was stand still and be quiet. By being quiet, she had stolen her students ’ attention. The students looked at her, tried to find out who was she. They had several comments about her. By being quiet, I looked for, stole the students’ attention. I was quiet and they saw me, tried to look for who I am. They would have certain comments just like in the previous class. A funny experience was happened when I was teaching English in Management programme, they thought that I was their lecturer a ssisstant. But then I cut it down” 2-V6-1-ET-T-SA. Then suddenly she asked a question to them, “What are you doing here?” The students were surprised and answered “ study, study”. But Ms. Vera said she did not want to teach students just like ordinary teacher. She told them that she would facilitated them. She wanted them to help each other and to be independent student. She always asked the students to be more independent. About accounting itself, she said to the students that, “Okay so you are learning here and you are learning English and then you are accounting students so let’s make a kind of connection. So what if you are accounting students,so what if you are learning 62 English. So setting the goal that you are learning English here because you need that ” 3-V11-2-ET-T-SA. After setting the goal together with her students, she set up an activity to get to know each other , the teacher and the students, the names. She asked the students to introduce their names and also where they came from. “Getting to know each other , the teacher and the students, the names. and then also usually I asked the students to Introduce their name and also where they come from. Only two important things. important data ” 3-V12-2-ET-T-AW. In the first meeting she had also never given any kind of paper related to material related to her English class. She asked the students to copy the material or she made her own handout or she just gave one piece of paper for the next meeting instead. She gave her own material because based on her experience the material she got from the campus-the General English was too general. “And why I gave my own material because based on my experience I got the material from the campus-the General English was too general” 3-V21-2-ET-E-AU. By making her own handout she has become autonomous. While for Ms. Widi, it was hard for her at first to teach such a big class. She thought it was pretty hard to manage a big class with a quite a lot of students in the class but she managed the class by having three teaching assisstants. All of them were actually her students in English letters department. So she did not think that it was really hard anymore compared to her previous class experience because in her previous class she was just alone there without any teaching assistant at all. At that time she had to manage a very big class by herself and she found it was 63 too overwhelming for her. She felt like it was hard to have a lot of students especially all the students at that time who came from the same batch. “I had to manage the very big class by myself and I found like it was too overwhelming for me. You know like having quite you know a lot of students ..all the students at that time they came from the same batch ”1-W03-1-ET-T-ST. So her class at that time was started at 2 p.m. and ended at 5p.m. She felt it was a really really long and tiring class. And what made it worse was that after that class, English class, still the students had more class up to 8 p.m. So it was really challenging thing for her. “So the class started from 2 up to 5. It was really really long and tiring and what made it worse is that after that class, English class, still they had more class after that up to 8 p.m. so yes.. really it’s really challenging thing for me” 1-W04-1-ET-T-ST. So she encouraged her self and also her teaching assisstants to always bring their very best to class, how to make the class funnier and more interesting. She thought that they were there to create a kind of medium , a place, so that they were so happy studying English with them no matter what their background at that time was 1-W04-1-ET-T-ST. She was aware at that time that syllabus was important. That was the guidance. But it did not mean that she and her assisstants could not modify it. They could modifiy it. Again it depended on the current situations. It depended on how the teachers’ belief. It depended on their belief because again they thought syllabus was syllabus. But she did believe at that time that by having such kind of classroom management or classroom activities then her classroom at that time was much more interesting 1-W04-1-ET-E-AU.