Problem Limitation Research Objectives

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2. English Language Education Study Program Lecturers

This research wants to find out about students’ perceptions on the use of group presentation strategy to enhance their independent learning. Also, it tries to discover students’ suggestions on the use of group presentation strategy in the learning process in enhancing their independent learning. By doing this research, hopefully the lecturers can know their students’ perspectives on the use of group presentation strategy for their independent learning enhancement. Hopefully, some suggestions collected from the students will also be beneficial for the lecturers in implementing group pre sentation strategy to enhance students’ independent learning.

3. Future Researchers

This research talks about students’ perceptions on the use of group presentation strategy to enhance students’ independent learning. It also talks about students’ suggestions on the use of group presentation in the learning process to enhance their independent learning. Hopefully, this research can inspire the future researchers who want to conduct similar research related to the topic in this research. It is expected that this research provides enough information as one of the references to help them. Moreover, the researcher hopes that the findings, the information, and the theories in this research can help future researchers who are interested to do further discussion about the similar topic. There are many things can be talked about the use of group presentation and the independent learning. The future researcher can 8 conduct research on how group presentation project can influence students’ independent learning, the effects of group presentation project for students’ achievement, or students’ independent learning improvement with the other learning strategies.

F. Definition of Terms

The researcher uses some important terms in this research. The researcher defines the terms in this section in order to clarify concepts and avoid misinterpretation. The terms discussed are perceptions, independent learning, learning strategy, and group presentation.

1. Perceptions

According to Ponty 1996, perceptions are the judgment, impression, and believe or thought about perceiving p. 38. Goldstein 2009 defines perceptions as everything that everyone sees, hears, tastes, feels, or smells which is created by the mechanism of the senses p. 5. In this research, perceptions are the ELESP students’ thought about the use of group presentation to enhance their independent learning. The students can perceive and share their opinions and suggestions based on their experiences in doing the group presentation project and how it enhances their independent leaning.