Difficulties in Reading English Stories Difficulties in Listening
88 answer that they found. The detail information of the result of the question
number twelve is presented in Table 4.5.
Table 4.5 The Percentages of Question Number 12 No.
Question Answers
Percentage
12. What do you do to overcome
the difficulties? a. Opening dictionary
79.2 b. Asking friends
56.6 c. Asking family members
29.2 d. Asking the teacher
64.2 e.
Etc. browsing internet 8.5
Second , the researcher identified the students‟ capabilities to access a
computer or a laptop and internet based on the result of question numbers fifteen and sixteen. The information would be the basis in specifying learning or teaching
activities and resources, especially in developing the multimedia materials. From the questions, the researcher found that it was not difficult for the students to get
an access to a computer or a laptop and internet. The reason was because half of them had a computer or a laptop. The rest could get the access from their parents,
siblings, the computer rentals, the internet counters, or at the school. The detail information of the result of the questions number fifteen and sixteen is presented
in Table 4.6.
Table 4.6 The Percentage of Questions Number 15 and 16 No.
Questions Answers
Percentage
15. How do you get an access to a
computer or a laptop? a. From my own
35.8 b. From my parents
27.4 c. From my brother or sister
11.3 d. From the school
5.7 e. From computer rentals
12.3 f. Etc. internet counters
7.5
89
No. Questions
Answers Percentage
16. How do you get an access to a
computer or a laptop? a. From my own
30,2 b. From my parents
20.8 c. From my brother or sister
7.5 d. From the school
10.4 e. From computer rentals
19.8 f. Etc. internet counters
11.3
The raw data of the student‟s answer and examples that they mentioned in the questionnaires are presented in the Appendix E.
As it had been mentioned before, the researcher also distributed a questionnaire to the English teacher. The questionnaire for teacher was distributed
on October 31
st
, 2011. The purpose was not to identify the English teacher‟s
characteristics, but experiences and opinions. The data would help the researcher to identify the English teacher‟s point of view related to appropriate materials that
could be used in the classroom activities. First, the researcher identified the
English teacher‟s experiences in using stories in the learning and teaching process, the examples, the purposes, and the
sources from questions number one to four. From the questions, the researcher found that:
a. The English teacher has ever used stories in the English course.
b. The English teacher told a story that showed daily activities as a modeling,
telling personal experiences as motivation, or read a story taken from the English textbooks as a part of the materials.
c. The purposes of using the stories were as an overview, ice breaking or
refreshing, the main materials, and exercises. d.
The English teacher got the stories from the English textbooks.