Perceptions on the Service Program Design Students’ English Course

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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

This chapter presents the data and the analysis based on clients’ perceptions on the SPD students’ teaching skills in the classroom. There are 66 questionnaires and five interviews were used to obtain the data from the clients. The compiled raw data then were analyzed and interpreted to answer two research questions. In discussing research findings, the terms of teacher for SPD students and students for clients are used interchangebly since the researcher is willing to discuss teachers and students in general together with the phenomena hapenning to the SPD students and their clients.

A. Perceptions on the Service Program Design Students’ English Course

The first problem formulation is aimed to find out how the clients perceived the English Course. The perceptions on the course for clients’ needs were a very significant thing to examine. The first research problem was intended to enquire whether the English course is still needed or not. The researcher also discovered whether the clients could obtain any advantages from the English course or not. The answers to all those questions were presented in the questionnaire statement numbers one to seven in table 4.1. 34 Table 4.1. Clients’ perceptions on the English course No. Statements SD D A SA 5. You found out that the class room situation is interesting and fun. 9.09 6 60.61 40 30.30 20 6. You could develop your English abilities after following the English course program. 9.09 6 60.61 40 30.30 20 7. You received so many things which support your English abilities. 1.51 1 1.51 1 77.27 51 19.70 13 As viewed in the table, the fifth statement is about the classroom environment and climate. According t o Danielson’s framework of teaching 2007, classroom environment is the second important domain which the teachers should pay attention to. Danielson stated that classroom environment is not only a physical place for students to learn, it is also a place for teachers and students to interact and communicate with each other. SPD students should be able to create a positive classroom environment and prepare clients to reach the learning goals. In this study, there were 60.61 of the clients who agreed that the classroom situations were fun for them to learn. While there were 30.30 of the clients who strongly agreed. Most of them agreed that the SPD student teacher could build such an interesting and fun situation in the classroom. Classroom situation is able to help students’ learning process. If the classroom situation is different from the student expectations, it will affect student motivation and enthusiasm in following the class. If the classroom environment is comfortable, interesting, inviting and 35 fun; clients will learn more productively in the class. Considering the fact that students require good classroom climate, the teachers should possess the ability to create the environment where students can live and learn Emmer, Evertson, Worsham, 2009 The sixth statement is about the clients’ progress after following the course process. The data percentage shows 60.61 of the clients agreed and 30.30 strongly agreed that they could improve their English skills after following the course. The learning outcomes from the long process of learning are the important thing to consider since it indicates how effective the learning process is. Learning results could be seen by clients ’ progress. This study investigated clients ’ self reflection on their English language progress after following the learning process. It is pictured in the data presentation that over 90 of the total clients felt their English skills were improved after following the course. The last statement of the first category is the advantages of following the course. There were 77.27 of the clients who agreed with the statement and 19.70 who strongly agreed that they could obtain many things to support their English ability. Clients ’ perceptions on the advantages of following the course showed that the the English Course held by SPD students is important and beneficial for them. By looking at the result from the close-ended typed questionnaire statement one to seven, it can be concluded that most of the clients had good perceptions on the the English Course. They realized that learning and mastering 36 English today are important. It leads to the needs for learning English through English Courses. Almost all of the clients needed to learn English because they needed to master English. Aside from awareness to learn English, the clients also had good perceptions on the course they had. They felt the classroom situations were fun and interesting; they were enthusiastic to follow the course not only because of the duty. Finally, they also could have the advantages from following the course. Through some interviews , the first interview question questioning about clients ’ feelings after following the course, it is found that all of the interviewees had the similar feelings. They felt satisfied, happy, proud of themselves, more confident, and motivated. They felt that the learning process brought many positive things in their lives. They received many advantages, benefits and gained new experiences through the course they were following. The only issue was that they only got very short time to learn English while they thought they need more than what they had experienced. Even though the research traced that most of the clients had good perceptions on the English Course, there were still few of them who had bad perceptions on the English Course. This means there are some things that still need to be fixed and improved by the SPD students.

B. Perceptions on the SPD Students’ Teaching Skills in Teaching English