Do you think that homework or class assignments are useful? S3: useful
73 The researcher later asked some questions to Apri to find out whether his
consciousness level on learning English is also reflected from his opinion about homework, assignments, and his initiatives to make notes or highlight while
paying attention to the lesson. Similar to what Tiwi and Rizka said, Apri realized the importance of homework and assignments as a method and kind of
reinforcement to keep students studying out of the school hours. He thought that doing homework is better than just playing around or sleeping at home. It shows
that Apri is conscious that homework and assignments are used to help students and not only for academic score achievement. It can be seen from the following
conversation.
R: Do you think that homework or class assignments are useful? S3: useful
R: why? S3: it is better than just sleeping or playing around at home.
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It is also revealed that Apri pays less attention to the teacher because there are lots of noises and distraction from other classmates. The conversation is as
follow.
R: Do you often pay attention to the teaching learning activity or not? S3: I usually pay less attention.
R: Why? S3: there are lots of noisy classmates.
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The situation from the conversation above shows that the situation in the classroom is not suitable for effective learning process especially English. In this
term, Apri has low consciousness since he is passive in the classroom and also easy to be distracted by his environments.
74 Apri also admitted that he seldom takes notes of the lesson he gets in the
class. He said that he only underlines some words or information which he has not understood yet from the book. The conversation is written below.
R:
Emmm… Do you often make notes or highlight any text in book about the explained material?
S3: I seldom make notes but I often underline some words in book. R: so underlining the important things? What for?
S3:
usually I underline some words in books because I don’t understand it.
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From the conversation, Apri is conscious that in order to understand deeper on his learning, he needs to make any kind of highlight to help him understanding some
missing information. He admitted that he rarely makes note, but he often uses the highlighting technique to mark some difficult terms. It shows that Apri has
enough consciousness in his learning. Apri also added that he usually prefers to ask his teacher about something he does not understand from the lesson. In
addition, he also admitted that he seldom repeats the lesson he gets from the class. Here is what he said.