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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
In this chapter, the researcher presented and analyzed the data from the interview result of three teachers as participants. The findings from the interview
were discussed to answer the reseach question : “What does the implementation of
English computer based national examination mean to Vocational High Schools English teachers in Yogyakarta?
”. Then, it would be a discussion about teachers’ lived-experiences in English subject national examination using computer based
test.
A. Text description
In this part, the researcher shows the teachers’ story background in the relation of teaching English and English computer based national examination.
The summary of teachers’ story based on participants’ lived experience which is conducted in depth interview. There was correlation
between participants’ background and the participants’ mean toward the implementation of English
subject national examination in Vocational High Schools.
1. Story of Participant 1
She is an English teacher in SMK Negeri 2 Yogyakarta. She began teaching English in this school since 2006 until now. It means that she has already
35 become a teacher in this school for about ten years. She graduated from English
Literature Faculty of Gadjah Mada University. She explained why she wanted to become a teacher. She said it might be a
role model, because her father and her mother were teachers. Then, after she graduated from university she started to teach in STIKES and STBA before she
became a teacher in SMK Negeri 2 Yogyakarta. She realized that English was very important subject to learn in this
globalization era. She said that many of her students realized it after they had graduated and then they worked in a company. She argued that learning English
was depended on each students’ motivation. Students who wanted to continue their study usually learned English seriously. However, she said that some of
students in certain department, such as Building Technique Department thought that English was not important because it would not be used in their field.
She said that she had to give motivation and understanding to her students that learning English was important for them. She gave an example of her
explanation to her students. She had to relate English to students’ real life. She
asked students whether they liked to listen to the English music or not. They said “yes”, and she started to asked next question “Did you know the meaning of the
lyric?” and most of them said no. Then, she explained that it was one of the benefits of learning English, to know what the meaning of your favorite English
song. She gave motivation to her students with that way. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
36 Besides that, she also used computer or laptop when she taught her
students. She realized that using computerlaptop was very useful in the classroom. The students did not have to take note during the teaching process.
They could copy the material from the teachers’ laptop. She said it saved the time and effective. Then, she added that she also used internet to help her made
teaching material. She also used Facebook to communicate and provide useful material for students outside the class. She thought that Facebook could be used
for positive things. The students would not only waste their time when they opened their Facebook account but also got something useful for them.
Then, to evaluate the learning process, she used essay or multiple choice. She still used the manual way, using paper not using special program in computer
to conduct assessment in the classroom. It because the school did not have the program to conduct online assessment in the classroom yet. However, she said
that the school had already used computer based test in national examination. She said that using computer based test was more effective than using paper-pencil
test. The students could focus only on their test without trying to cheat. It because the questions list of every students was not same. It had mixed randomly. She also
said that computer based test was more efficient than paper-pencil test in time and budget. However, she said that the facility to conduct computer based test was
still limited. The amount of the computers and the students was not balance. She suggested for schools which had enough computer to conduct computer based
test. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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