The Researcher’s Perception on Internship Program Course

33 a. Name: HJ Sex: Male HJ attended the Internship Program Course in the semester eight February 2015 – April 2015, at a State Senior High School in Yogyakarta. Before attending the Internship Program Course, he had a big motivation to be an English teacher. Previously, he had experiences in teaching children privately, in his village. Before attending the Internship Program course, he considered that teaching at school was easy. It was because of his belief, which was constructed since early semester. However, his belief was totally different after seeing the reality at school. He realized that being an English teacher was not as easy as what people thought, especially in managing the class. The difficulty in managing the classroom was also experienced by him. It happened when he taught in the eleventh grade. The students could not be held easily and it made him show his emotion up. Besides difficulty in managing class, he did not get enough motivation from the school environment to be an English teacher. He thought that the Internship Program Course was an obligatory course as a formality because he lost the enthusiasm. However, there was an interesting experience which HJ got during the Internship Program Course. He got involved in the extracurricular activity as an English debate trainer with his partner. He trained the debate team for a regional competition in Sleman district. Fortunately, his team became the winner in Sleman district. It was an unforgettable experience for him because he was able to 34 bring the team to the province level. However, in the province level, his team was defeated since the first phase. Unfortunately, his motivation to be an English teacher decreased after attending the Internship Program Course because of the reality at school. It made HJ think about another job after he graduated from Sanata Dharma University. He believed that the ELESP alumni could work in various jobs, because they had English skill. b. Name: FS Sex: Female FS has a dream to be an English Teacher and she loves teaching. She took the Internship Program Course in the seventh semester July 2014 – September 2014, at a State Junior High School in Yogyakarta. During the Internship Program Course, she taught a class which consisted of Keluarga Menuju Sejahtera KMSHeading to Prosperous Family students. The students in that classroom were naughty and tend to be hyper-active. Moreover, the students were hard to handle because they could not pay attention to the teacher ’s explanation. At first, she tried to use learning methods that she acquired in the college. However, it was useless because it did not su it to the students’ behavior. She became frustrated and angry every time she entered the KMS class. At the some point, FS reflected on the learning process which she conducted to find out the problems and tried to solve them. She believed that in teaching and learning activity, the problems did not always come up from the students, but a teacher could also bring out the problems. Based on her reflection,