Research Setting Research Participants

22 Banguntapan in writing exposition text. The data gathering technique was going to be done in two steps. The first step was the researcher distributed the questionnaire to XI IPS 1 SMA N 1 Banguntapan. The researcher distributed the questionnaires after observing the class during the PPL. The researcher expected that the students already used Google Translate to help them doing writing assignments which was given by the researcher as an individual assignment. The next step was the researcher did the interview with students who always used Google Translate to help them in doing the assignments and with the students who did not really use Google Translate. This interview was done with expectation the researcher obtained clearer and reliable data. The researcher was going to interview two learners who have the most positive answer toward Google Translate and other two learners who have the most negative answer toward Google Translate. The interview was done in two days, with two learners each day and took 20 minutes the most for each learner.

E. Data Analysis Technique

1. Quantitative Data

Quantitative data was numerical data that was from the study Cohen, Manion, and Morrison; 2011. The qualitative data from this study would be from the first part of the questionnaire. The first part of the 23 questionnaire had 25 close-ended questions which would be analyzed and calculated using the percentage. a. Closed-ended questions In the questionnaire, the researcher made 25 close-ended statements. For each statement, the degree of agreements and disagreements were classified as „Strongly Disagree,‟ „Disagree,‟ „Undecided,‟ „Agree,‟ and „Strongly Agree‟. The first step to obtain the data was the researcher calculated the amount of respond from the students who answered „strongly agree,‟ „agree,‟ „undecided,‟ „disagree,‟ and „strongly agree.‟ After knowing the amount, the researcher put the data on the table to make it clear. In this study, the students‟ perception on Google Translate could be measured based on the answers they gave. Students who had the positive perceptive were the stud ents who had „strongly agree‟ and „agree‟ as the most answer of their questionnaire. Thus, the students who had the negative perceptive are mostly answer „disagree‟ and „strongly disagree‟. In order to know the result in numbers, the researcher calculated the total respondents and the data obtained, and changed it into percentage. The formula was;