Students’ Needs Based on the Questionnaires for the Students

b. Students’ Needs Based on the Questionnaires for the Students

In order to obtain a clear description of students’ needs, the writer distributed questionnaires to the eleventh grade students of SMK N I Kalasan on September 18, 2008. The writer only distributed the questionnaire in one class eleventh grade of Hotel Accommodation Department because of the limited time. The eleventh grade of Hotel Accommodation Department consisted of 12 male students and 23 female students, so the total number of the participants was 35. The writer gathered the data of the respondents’ opinion in the form of open- closed questionnaire, the respondents would choose the answer based on their opinions but still they have a chance to provide their own opinion. In each question the respondents might choose more than one answer. The writer presented the questionnaire on the needs survey on Appendix D and the result of the questionnaire on the needs survey on Appendix E. The writer analyzed the result of the questionnaire on the needs survey as following. The question number 1 was intended to know what kind of activities the students liked in learning English based on communicative language teaching. From 35 students, the results are learning through games 63. It showed that more than half of the students enjoyed learning through games. Some students liked finding new vocabulary, doing tasks, group discussion, role play and only a few of the students liked reading text. This means that the students enjoyed the activities such as learning through games, finding new vocabulary, doing task, group discussion and role play in learning English. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Related to the type of method using in teaching learning process from 35 students 77 liked games. It means that more than half of the students liked games in the teaching learning process. Less than half of the students chose group discussion, sharing experience, role play, presentation, and only a few of the students chose question and answer, and lecturing. From this result, the designed materials will include those activities such as games, group discussion, sharing experience, role playing, and presentation. Furthermore the question number 3 was aimed at knowing what kinds of techniques were preferred by the students to help them learn English well. From 35 students, 69 of them preferred learning by doing and more than a half of the students preferred lecturing. Less than a half of the students preferred pair work, indoor activities, individual learning, using media, outdoor activities, and group work as techniques which can help the students to learn English well. Based on the result above, the designed materials will apply such techniques as learning by doing, lecturing, and pair work in the designed materials. The question number 4 was aimed to know the English skills which should be learned by the students. As the result, more than half of the students chose speaking and some students chose listening, reading, and writing. Based on the result above, the designed materials will cover four English skills. They are speaking, listening, reading, and writing. From question number 5.86 of the students were interested in using the internet as a media in learning English. The reasons the students liked using PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI internet because it could broaden their knowledge, interesting, and not boring. The rest, 14 of the students did not like using internet because they had difficulty in operating the internet. The materials designed will provide some activities for the students to use the internet as a media in learning English. Based on question number 6.80 of the students considered using song in the listening activities was interesting, challenging, and could help them understand English more easily. Only few of the students found difficulty in using song in the listening activities because they did not understand the words in the English song. This means that the designed materials will include listening to the songs as one of the activities. The question number 7 was aimed to know whether the English book used in the classroom was interesting or not. 70 of the students considered it was not interesting because the layout was not interesting no picture and not colorful and the reading text is not suitable for Hotel Accommodation. Only few of the students considered the book used in the classroom was interesting because the materials are easy to understand. This means that the designed materials will be colorful, has some picture, and provide the reading text which is suitable for Hotel Accommodation Department. The result of question number 8 showed that 57 of the students considered an interesting English book should have materials which are easy to understand. Other students considered an interesting English book should have various activities and tasks, interesting reading text and suitable for Hotel PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Accommodation and interesting pictures and colorful. The designed materials will include those criteria. The last question of the questionnaire, number 9, was aimed to find out the suitable topics for Hotel Accommodation based on the students’ opinions. The writer provided nine options of topics on the questionnaire based on the syllabus used by eleventh grade of Hotel Accommodation Department of SMK N I Kalasan. The result showed that 97 of the students chose handling the guest. More than half of the students also chose daily activities, giving opinion, giving invitation, giving instruction, telling one’s experience, and telling one’s future plans. The rest of the students, less than 10, chose bargaining and weather forecast as an appropriate topic for Hotel Accommodation. Based on the result above, the topic of the designed materials will be handling the guest, daily activities, giving opinion, giving invitation, giving instruction, telling one’s experience, and telling one’s future plan. The results of the questionnaire on the needs survey gave a challenge for the writer to design the materials which are interesting and suitable for the eleventh grade students of Hotel Accommodation Department of SMK N I Kalasan. The writer was also challenged to conduct the teaching learning process as enjoyable and serious as possible. The last question was aimed at listing the nine interesting topics. Based on the last question, the writer decided to rank the top seven topics from nine options because those seven topics were chosen by more than a half of the students. The writer presents those seven topics in Table 4.1. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Table 4.1 The List of 7 Top Topics No Topic Percentage 1 Handling the guest 97 2 Greeting and introduction 94 3 Giving opinion 89 4 Giving invitation 77 5 Giving instruction 63 6 Telling one’s experience 60 7 Telling one’s future plans 57

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