The Profile and the Characteristics of the Students

59 activities are not interesting for them. In order to keep students‟ desire to learn English high, the fun and enjoyable activities should be designed. The teaching and learning goals can be achieved if the students love the lesson. The next part of the questionnaire consists of two statements. It gains the data about the students‟ motivation in learning English and the result declares that the students learn English because they are willing to. There are 58.3 of the students who disagree that they learn English because they are forced to. It is good because the students had internal motivation to learn English. The third part of the questionnaire is used to obtain the data about what the students already know about English. It consists of two statements. Unfortunately, the result presented that 75 of the students are not able to get what people say in English and 79.2 of them are not able to speak in English. It means that the class is dominated by the students who have a low proficiency level. The gap between the students with high proficiency level and low proficiency level is wide. It can be used as consideration for designing tasks which cover their proficiency levels. Then, the fourth part of the questionnaire aims to get the data about the English listening class. It is clear from the chart that most of the students disagree and strongly disagree that they learn listening skill by listening to songs, stories, or playing games. The result represents the lack of fun and enjoyable activities in the listening class. The statements number 14 to 27 is obtained the data about students‟ needs. The result shows that the two learning topics which get the highest scores are daily activities and food. Besides, most of the students strongly agree that they 60 like visual aids. Moreover, they also enjoy the activities which allow them to do actions. The conclusion is the students want to learn about daily activities and food. They also need media and activities which help them to enjoy the teaching and learning process, and also help them to understand the materials. The last part of the questionnaire aims to elicit the students‟ preferences for stories. 91.7 students enjoy adventure stories. This is very useful information as the consideration for choosing the appropriate stories for the students. 2 The analysis of the interview The result of the questionnaire analysis is strengthened by the result of the interview with the teacher. From the interview, some information were got related to the students‟ attitude towards the lesson, the activities they were interested in, the teaching and learning activities in the English class, and the materials that should be learned by the students. The information could be seen in the following analysis. First, there were two questions being asked to the teacher to obtain the data about the students‟ attitude towards English lesson. The result showed students seemed enthusiastic about learning English when the learning activities were fun. Designing fun activities were ver y crucial in getting students‟ attention. The information can be seen in the following transcript. R: Apakah siswa antusias dalam belajar bahasa Inggris, Bu? Do the students seem enthusiastic about learning English? T: Pada dasarnya siswa suka belajar bahasa Inggris, Mbak. Tapi itu tergantung kegiatan pembelajaran seperti apa. Basically, the students like to learn English but their enthusiasm depends on the teaching and learning activities. continued