Teaching-Learning Process and Material

36 in English. There were 43,5 that had been studying English since they were in first grade Elementary School, 43,5 participants had been studying English since they were in Kindergarten, and 10 participants had been studying English since they were in Playgroup, and 3 participants had not got English in their school. The findings showed that most of the participants had enough background knowledge of English before they studied English in Kumon English Course. Table 4.2.1 The Result of the Students’ Background Knowledge of English Close-ended Questionnaires Table 4.2.2 The Result of the Students’ Background Knowledge of English Open-ended Questionnaires No. Statement Elementary Kindergarten Playgroup Not yet 2. Students start to learn English at school. 13 43,5 13 43,5 3 10 1 3 The researcher chose 5 students to participate in the interview in order to get detail information related to their responses from the questionnaire. The students were chosen based on their level of study. On the interview section, the researcher asked the students to give more detail information about their background knowledge of English. The whole interviewed result showed in appendix 5. From the interviewed result, most of the students were interested in English because it was fun, the most interesting subject and they got a best mark in English. There was a student who was not interested in English. “I do not like No. Statement Yes No 1. Students like English. 29 97 1 3 37 English. My English teacher at school is so bad, I love Mandarin rather than English” Participant 5, appendix 5. He thought that English was boring and a difficult subject. He tend to like Mandarin because he thought that it was easier than English. All of those perceptions came from how they got English in school.

2. The Students’ Learning Process in Kumon English Course

In order to gain the information about the students’ perception in independent learning in Kumon English Course, the researcher gathered information about the students’ learning process in Kumon English Course. The researcher also gathered the information about the independent learning implemented. For the third question, all of the participants 100 felt that Kumon English Course helped them to study English. However, there were 93 participants were interested in Kumon ’s method and 7 participants were not interested in Kumon’s method. Furthermore, there were 70 participants who had no difficulty toward Kumon ’s method and 30 participants had difficulty toward Kumon’s method. Most of participants had difficulty toward the rule that forced them not to ask everyone and must do everything by themself. There were 77 participants were confident with their answers, but 23 were not confident. They feel confident because they thought that by listening and reading aloud the CD-textbook, would help them to do their worksheet. However, there were participants who were not confident with their answers because some of them were afraid to have wrong answers and they were doubtful with their answers.