Direct Vocabulary Learning DISCUSSION

4.2.7 Tutoring

From the result of the interview, Laut needs people to tutor her in the learning process. They can be the teacher, the parents or friends. Regarding that Laut is a special need student all the process are using clear system in which all the tutors use a certain way to teach Laut. As elaborated in the previous parts Laut first learned English from her kindergarten teacher. The teacher exposed Laut positive behavior, interest, and curiosity to learn English to introduce new vocabulary. The way she introduced the new vocabulary worked well so that Laut could memorize. After sh e finished kindergarten Laut’s mother continued the process. In this stage the mother also played a role as a tutor who assisted Laut in the learning process. She introduced new words in a form of list. Then she asked Laut to memorize and she still monitored and gave assistance. In inclusive school Laut gets knowledge from the teacher and helped by her friends. In this stage the system is so much better because the school does not only give new knowledge but they also treat the syndromes. The school provides facilities that can ease the challenge. One of the most important things is providing experienced teachers who can deal with special needs student. Teachers play an important role in the learning process at school. They are expected to be able to handle Laut’s psychological condition because when the psychological condition is good the learning process can run well. Beside the teacher, classmates are also actively involved in the learning process in school. Pair tutoring is an effective technique to support Laut to learn at school. It can help Laut to reduce anxiety because she knows that her friends care and her friends are willing to help her whenever she finds difficulties. Learning with a student with ADHD is not easy. Laut has a lot of challenges in learning so it is very hard to ask her to learn independently and expects her to learn spontaneously in which learning occurs through daily communication, in a natural fashion, and free from systematic guidance. Laut is special so she needs guidance, intensive and effective guidance so that she can learn as well as the other students. The help from people around her plays important role. According to Klein 1986 this learning process is called tutored or guided. From the elaboration above it is concluded the people involved in tutoring are: a. Teachers: Tutoring activities take place in school and it happens during the teaching learning activities. b. Care takers: In this study mother belongs to care taker. Tutoring happens when the mother introduced list of new English vocabulary. c. Peer: Peer tutoring happens in the classroom when Laut works with her classmates. According to the coordinator of the inclusive classroom peer tutoring is an effective way to support Laut when Laut has problem in learning, not only the teacher helps her but also her classmates. It can reduce her anxiety and she can do the task well. After finishing writing the result, the next step is doing data triangulation. The data triangulation was done through member checking. Data triangulation aims to make sure whether the interpretation of the data is true or wrong. The participant for the data triangulation was the coordinator of inclusive program. The consideration was that the coordinator knows Laut very well. Although he does not interact with Laut every day, he monitors Laut’s development including the problem and the progress. The result of data triangulation was positive. The participant agrees with the result of the study. He said that it is interesting to relate the phenomena, in this case the phenomena are Laut’s attitude, with theory. Generally the result is accepted but he added some points on the result. The first point is for the description of the participant. He said that it is important to state that ADHD is not a sickness and it can be cured. Thinking that ADHD is a sickness that should be cured is wrong perception. The thing that should be done is managing the symptoms and training them until the person can control the symptoms. It needs time and long process. In Laut case, it can be seen the progress as the result of the process. There are different symptoms in every level. The changing is in positive way, and now in grade four Laut can manage herself better. The second point he added is one of the result, tutoring. He wants to emphasis on peer tutoring. it should be elaborated because peer tutoring gives positive influence especially the emotion and it influence her academic performance. After conducting data triangulation I revise the result and the result of the data triangulation was used to improve the result.