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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
In this chapter, the researcher presents the finding and data analysis which have been gathered by employing two research instruments: questionnaire and
interview. From the data analysis, the researcher presents the findings which answer the two research questions stated in Chapter 1.
The first part is the findings. In this section, the researcher presents the findings from the questionnaires and the interviews which have been gathered.
The numerical data on the questionnaire was converted into statements and the interview data are related to the questionnaire as the supporting data. There are
two sub tittles: 1 The students’ Perception on The Implementation of Student-
Teacher Consultation 2 The Influences of Student-Teacher Consultation. The last section is the discussion. This part overviews the general result of the
students’ perception on student-teacher consultation and the influences of student-teacher
consultation on the students’ writing proficiency.
A. Findings
The questionnaire was distributed to thirty students of Academic Essay Writing AEW course at the English Language Education Study Program of
Sanata Dharma University. Since student-teacher consultation was implemented in AEW class F, the researcher chose this class to be observed. The agreement
scales were provided in questionnaire in the form of Likert scale. The respondents had to choose one of the degrees of frequencies that were provided. In the
34 questionnaire, the researcher provided twenty close-ended statements with the
degree of frequency: strongly disagree 1, disagree 2, agree 3 and strongly agree 4, and five open-ended questions. Besides, the researcher also provided
five questions for the interview section to the students and three questions for the interview section to the lecturer. Therefore, the findings were divided into two
parts: 1 students’ perception on the implementation of student-teacher consultation and 2 the influences of student-teacher consultation.
1. Students’ Perception on the Implementation of Student-Teacher
Consultation
This section presents the findings which were related to the students’
perception on the implementation of student-teacher consultation. There are four sub-discussions
: students’ attitude towards writing in Academic Essay Writing, student-teacher consultation in AEW course, the st
udents’ perception on student- teacher consultation and students’ attitude towards student-teacher consultation.
This finding is used to answer the first research question.
a Students’ Attitude towards Writing in Academic Essay Writing
The researcher provided a general close-ended question in the first statement which found out whether the students faced difficulties. Then, one
open-ended question which asked what the difficulties that they got in writing an essay. The findings are presented as follow:
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