Lecturers of Play Performance Class Students of English Language Education Study Program

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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter includes two parts, namely theoretical description and theoretical framework. The theoretical description presents some important concepts which are related to the research. The concepts are: 1 perception, 2 speaking, and 3 scripted role plays. Moreover, the theoretical framework consists of summary from the theories that will be used to solve the research problems.

A. Theoretical Description

In this section, the researcher discusses the theories which are related to this study. There are three major theories need to be explained. They are perception, speaking, and scripted role plays. Before going to explain the theories, the researcher wants to review the previous research that inspires the researcher to do this research in this study. Th ere are so many researchers who conduct the research on students’ perception. They are students’ perception on the writing skill, reading skill, listening skill, speaking skill, and some integrated skills. Especially for the speaking skill, there are some researchers who wrote students’ perception to enhance speaking skill but only some researchers focus on writing the topic role play as the major point to research. Therefore, the researcher in this study wants to conduct the research of the students’ perception on the use of a scripted role play 10 in this study. The scripted role play is used by the researcher because in the previous research, it has not used yet. In the next session, the researcher wants to explain the perception since the major study of thi s research is the students’ perception.

1. Perception

This part provides the theories related to the perception.

a. The Nature of Perception

There are some understandings of perception from the experts. According to Worchel and Shebilske 1998, perception is the process of interpreting information. Moskowitz and Orgel 1969 argue that perception is a global response to a stimulus or a set of stimuli. Besides, Szilagyi and Wallace 1980 define perception as a process by which individuals attend to incoming stimuli, organize, and then interpret such stimuli into a message that in turn indicate an appropriate action or behavior. Therefore a perception is about giving the stimulus and response as the information. Not every person has the same perception even though they have the same object. It is because people have their own experience in the past. Mouly 1973 says that two persons looking at the same phenomenon may see very different things. Wick and Pick 1978 also state that there is a connection between perception and experience. In this study, the perception refers to the response of a scripted role play. T he students’ perception on the use of a scripted role play would be stronger if they experience it. If the students have a positive experience they would form a positive perception and if the students have a negative or bad