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CHAPTER IV DESCRIPTION AND INTERPRETATION
This chapter is divided into three major sections. The first, participants’
background, tells the background of the three participants. The second, description, shows the description of the participants’ story. The third, interpretation, explains the
interpretation of the participants’ descriptions.
A. PARTICIPANTS’ BACKGROUND
This section consists of three parts. Those three parts are covered by each of the participants’ personal background. It tells about their identities, background,
personalities, and activities which they do currently. This description is started with Egi’s personal background. The second is Laura’s personal background. Meanwhile,
the last is Angel’s personal background. Knowing the background of the participants is used to deliberate their personalities one by one.
1. Egi’s Personal Background
Egi is eighteen years old boy with his interest in mine field. In SMK N 2 Depok, he took Mining Geology as his major. His hobbies are listening to the music
and watching movie. He was born in Sraten, Mulyodadi, Bambanglipuro, Bantul, Yogyakarta, March 26
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1998. He lives with his parents there. Previously, he studied in SDN 1 Grogol and SMPN 1 Bantul. Currently, he is in charge with internship since
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Kartanegara, East Kalimantan. This program approximately will be last until February, next year.
2. Laura’s Personal Background
Laura is sixteen years old girl whose hobbies are reading novels and playing violin. She was born in Tangerang, March 5
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2000. She has interest in coding a program in computer and the thing related to computer. Her desire is being a
computer programmer. Before taking Computer and Network Engineering major in SMK N 2 Depok Sleman, she studied at Kanisius Kalasan Elementary School and
Kalasan 1 Junior High School. Her address is at Karangnongko Tirtomartani, Kalasan, Sleman, Yogyakarta.
Nowadays, she is in the fourth year of the school program. As mentioned previously, this school provides an internship for the students after they finish three
years learning at school. Therefore, Laura deals with the internship for one year ahead. She is employed at PT Gamatechno Indonesia which is located near Gadjah
Mada University. For Laura, learning English through text-based approach gives beneficial for her internship field. Since she is in charge with programming coding,
she often finds English is used in her current job. For instance, the procedure and explanation text. When she faces the troubleshooting program, there is a procedure
text which helps her solving her problem. Furthermore, the explanation text functions as the description material about coding program.
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3. Angel’s Personal Background
Angelis is the same as Laura, she is now in charge with internship one year ahead. Previously, she majors in Gas Manufacture and Petroleum Engineering. She is
eighteen years old girl. She was born in Yogyakarta, September 17
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1998. Her hobby is travelling. She likes exploring some new places and tasting new foods which are
new for her. As in line with her major, she desires to be an engineer. She is the kind of energetic and tough adolescent. In Yogyakarta, she lives with her parents at
Kaliurang Street km 16.5 Pakem Sleman, Yogyakarta. Before studying at SMK N 2 Depok Sleman, she took her junior high at SMP N 15 Yogyakarta.
Her internship program is done in this year. She is employed at PT. Pertamina Lubricants, Lomanis, Cilacap, Central Java. All the days of her internship she uses
Indonesian to communicate with her friends. But, when the assessors comes to her place of internship, she once communicates with them. She ever used procedure text
as the way to describe how to solve the problematic gas oil. Her experience to study at vocational high school can build up her life quality more than she expected, she
said.
B. DESCRIPTION
By the time the interviews were conducted, the participants were in the third grade. They were about to face the national examination and then prepared
themselves to the internship which held by the school. They shared their experiences related to learning English through text-based approach. This part describes what they
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