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Robbins also mentioned that to be able to influence productivity, it is necessary to assess how workers perceive their jobs. Hence, in this study, if the students have
positive cultural learning experiences, feel enjoyable, comfortable, interested in using Internet, and perceive Internet is a useful, effective, and efficient medium in
improving their academic achievements, they may have positive perception. Having positive perception is important because it will influence the students’ reaction to a
condition and give good impacts on students’ behaviors. In this study, the writer will conduct a survey of perception on the use of
Internet for academic purposes among the sixth semester ELESP students in the academic year of 20092010 of Sanata Dharma University. The perception refers to
how the students perceive the use of Internet and its contributions toward their academic achievements, in which the students’ perceptions on the use of Internet will
influence the students’ behaviors and motivations on the use of Internet for academic purposes.
2.2 Theoretical Framework
The Internet is so vast and complex. The use of Internet is increasing rapidly nowadays. The explanation of the Internet, features of the Internet, Web 1.0, and Web
2.0 serve as basic theories in this study. The Internet in language learning and teaching and the Internet for academic purposes theories as well as related research to
the Internet have provided recent issues and the importance of the use of Internet in
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language learning and teaching. The theory and related research of the difficulties in using Internet for academic purposes serve as the guidelines to identify the students’
difficulties regarding the use of Internet for academic purposes. Furthermore, this study aims to know how students perceive the use of
Internet in improving their academic achievements. Based on the theories of perception that have been discussed in the previous section, we know that there are
factors affect perception such as individual expectations, cultural learning experiences, needs, and other factors that enter into the process of perception are
unique to the individual, such as emotional and motivational states and cultural learning experiences. If the students perceive the use of Internet in improving
academic achievements positively, they tend to see it is effective, important, beneficial, and contributory. Hence, the positive perceptions will influence the
students’ reaction and give good impacts on students’ behaviors in reaching better academic achievements. In order to know the students’ perceptions, this study uses
survey as the method to explore the students’ perceptions on the use of Internet for academic purposes in improving their academic achievements, as well as to identify
the problems or difficulties of the use of Internet for academic purposes, and to provide some solutions which are suggested by the students and lecturers to improve
the effectiveness and efficiency of the Internet use in order to increase the enthusiasm of using Internet for academic purposes. Furthermore, the research methodology will
be discussed in Chapter III.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter describes the research methodology which includes research methods, research participants, research instruments, data gathering technique, data
analysis technique, and research procedure.
3.1 Research Methods
The methods in this study were both quantitative and qualitative methods. The data collection involved the numeric information questionnaire and textual
information questionnaire and interview, so that the data gathering or the results were presented both in quantitative and qualitative information. In order to collect
the information for answering the research problems, a survey was used through distributing questionnaires and conducting interviews. According to Wiersma 1995:
169, “surveys are used to measure attitudes, opinions, or achievements – any number of variables in natural setting”. Furthermore, according to Cohen, Manion and
Morrison 2000: 171, “the attractions of a survey lie in its appeal to generalizability or universality within given parameters, its ability to make statements which are
supported by large data banks and its ability to establish the degree of confidence which can be placed in a set of findings”.
