The Result of Questionnaires
Table 4.1 The Results of Questionnaires
No
Questions and Options Number of
Respondents Percentage
1.
How long have you studied English?
a.
5 – 7 years
b.
8 – 9 years
c.
10 – 11 years 19
34 17
27.14 48.58
24.28
2.
Have you ever joined any English courses outside the school?
a.
Yes
b.
No 38
32 54.29
45.71
3.
In your opinion, how important is learning English for your future?
a.
Very Important
b.
Important
c.
Less Important
d.
Not Important 54
16 77.14
22.86
4.
Do you like reading English texts outside the school assignments?
a.
Yes
b.
No 51
19 72.86
27.14
5.
What kind of passage do you like to read?
a.
Novels
b.
Short stories
c.
Articles Newspapers
d.
Letters
e.
Fairy tales
f.
Others: - Comics
- Magazines 30
24 23
9 21
7 1
42.86 34.28
32.86 12.86
30 10
1.43
6.
How is the reading skill you have?
a.
Excellent
b.
Good
c.
Ordinary
d.
Bad 1
11 55
3 1.43
15.71 78.57
4.29
7.
What are the difficulties you find in reading?
a.
There are many difficult words
b.
The passage is too long
c.
It’s difficult in understanding the grammar
49 10
42 70
14.28 60
8.
What kind of reading activity that you like?
a.
Read the text and answer the questions
b.
Retell the text orally
c.
Retell the text by writing a summary
d.
Discuss the text in group
e.
Others: 28
16 13
28 40
22.86 18.57
40
No
Questions and Options Number of
Respondents Percentage
- Just read and understand the text - Read and write a story
- Translate the text - No idea
3 1
1 1
4.29 1.43
1.43 1.43
9.
Do the reading activities given in XI grade help you to comprehend the reading text?
a.
Yes
b.
No 52
18 74.29
25.71
10.
Do you like reading narrative text?
a.
Yes
b.
No 57
13 81.43
18.57
11.
What kind of narrative text do you like?
a.
Short stories
b.
Myths
c.
Fairy tales
d.
Legends
e.
Fables 47
15 19
17 17
67.14 21.43
27.14 24.29
24.29
12.
Has your teacher ever often given narrative text in class?
a.
Yes
b.
No 64
6 91.43
8.57
13.
Do you like writing in English?
a.
Yes
b.
No 47
23 67.14
32.86
14.
Have you ever written a summary of a story in English?
a.
Yes
b.
No 53
17 75.71
24.29
15.
How is the writing skill you have?
a.
Excellent
b.
Good
c.
Ordinary
d.
Bad 2
15 50
3 2.86
21.43 71.43
4.28
16.
What are your difficulties in writing?
a.
Lack of vocabulary
b.
Difficulties in grammar
c.
Other: - Difficulties in spelling
46 52
1 65.71
74.29 1.43
17.
Have you ever studied English in group?
a.
Yes
b.
No 54
16 77.14
22.86
18.
In learning in group, how many members in a group do you want?
a.
2 – 3 persons
b.
4 – 5 persons
c.
Other: 5 – 6 persons
21 46
3 30
65.71 4.29
No
Questions and Options Number of
Respondents Percentage
19.
Is learning in groups can be useful in learning English?
a.
Yes
b.
No 67
3 95.71
4.29
20.
What is your opinion when you study in group?
a.
I like it since I can learn together so that I can do and understand the task better.
b.
I like it because I can stay relaxed.
c.
I don’t like it because the class becomes noisy and it can bother my concentration
in studying. 55
12 4
78.57
17.14 5.71
There were twenty questions in the questionnaire that should be answered by the students. They gave the answers by crossing the options given according to
their learning experiences and their opinions. After obtaining the data from the questionnaire, the writer analyzed it. The data were calculated by using
percentage method. Generally, the respondents have learned English for 5 to 11 years, in
accordance with question number one. Moreover, most students have learned English for 8 – 9 years that was showed by the highest percentage: 48.58. The
questions for number two and three were related to the students’ motivation in learning English. In the second question, the students were asked “Have you ever
joined any English courses outside the school?” Although the percentage of the students who answered “yes” and “no” did not have significant number, the
percentage of the students who answered “yes” was higher than the other option which was 54.29. It meant that they had motivation in learning English by
joining English courses outside the school. Moreover, question number three explained more about the students’
motivation because they were asked “In your opinion, how important is learning English for your future?” Forty five students 77.14 answered “very important”
and only sixteen students 22.86 answered “important”. Nobody chose “less nor not important”. It showed that they really realized the importance of learning
English for their future. The writer concluded that they had good motivation in learning English.
Question number four asked the students’ interest in reading. It was “Do you like reading English texts outside the school assignments?” Fifty one students
72.86 answered “Yes” and the rest which was nineteen students 27.14 said “No”. It showed that most of the students were interested in reading English texts.
While question number five asked about the kind of reading texts in general that the students like. It was “What kind of reading text do you like? Most of them,
which was thirty students 42.86, answered “novels”. Twenty four students 34.28 chose short stories as the reading text they like, while twenty three
students 32.86 said that they liked to read articles or newspapers. There were also many students who liked reading fairy tales, which were twenty one 30
student. The rest of them said they liked to read letters nine students 12.86, comics seven students 10, and magazines 1 student 1.43.
The writer gained information about the students’ reading skill through question number six. The students were asked “How is the reading skill you
have?” Most of them fifty five students 78.57 said that their reading skill was not really good. Eleven students 15.71 said that their reading skill was good.
One student 1.43 answered “very good” and the rest three students 4.29 answered “bad”.
The students’ difficulties in reading were known through question number seven. Forty nine students 70 said that their difficulty in
reading was about the difficult words vocabulary. Forty two students 60 said that it was difficult to understand the grammar, while the rest ten students
14.28 said that the passages were too long. Based on that, the writer concluded that the main difficulties in reading were about vocabulary and grammar.
In question number eight, the students were to choose reading activity they like. Twenty eight students 40 chose “reading the text and answering
questions” and “discussing the text in groups”. Sixteen students 22.86 chose retelling the text orally and thirteen students 18.57 chose retelling the text by
writing a summary. Three students 4.29 chose “just reading and understanding the text”. The rest chose “reading and writing a story” 1 student 1.43,
“translating the text” 1 student 1.43, and “having no idea” 1 student 1.43. In question number nine, the students were asked whether the reading
activities given in second grade really helped them to understand the reading text. Most of the students, which were fifty two students 74.29, chose “Yes”, and
the rest 25.71 said “No”. The next question number ten was “Do you like reading narrative text?” Fifty seven students 81.43 said “Yes” and thirteen
students 18.57 said “No”. The students were asked about the kind of narrative text they liked through
the eleventh question. Among the five choices given, most of them 47 students 67.14 chose short stories as they favorite narrative text. Nineteen students
27.14 chose fairy tales, 17 students 24.29 chose legends and fables. The rest of them 15 students 21.43 chose myths as their favourite narrative text.
Related to question number ten, the students were asked whether their teacher had ever often given narrative text in the class in question number twelve. Sixty four
students 91.43 said “Yes” and six students said “No”. It meant that the students had already been familiar with narrative text.
In order to know the students’ interest in writing, they were asked whether they liked to write something in English in question number thirteen. From that
question, forty seven students 67.14 answered “Yes” and twenty three students 32.86 answered “No”. It meant that most of them were interested in writing in
English. Then, the next question asked about the students’ experience in writing summary of a story in English. That question asked whether they had experienced
it or not. Fifty three students 75.71 said “Yes” and the rest; seventeen students 24.29 said “No”. It showed that most of them had experience in writing
summary of a story in English. The next question tried to gain information about students’ ability in
writing. The result was that fifty students 71.43 said that their writing ability was not really good and three students 4.28 said it was bad. However, fifteen
students 21.43 said that their writing ability was good, even two students 2.86 were confident enough to say that their writing ability was excellent.
Related to the answer for the fifteenth question which told that most of the students thought their writing ability was not really good, the next question asked
the reason for that. It asked the students’ opinion “What are your difficulties in writing?” and the result was that fifty two students 74.29 said they had
difficulty in grammar, while forty six students 65.71 said the difficulty they faced was lack of vocabulary. Moreover, one student 1.43 said he had
difficulty in spelling. Since this research used cooperative learning, the students were also asked
about learning in groups through question number seventeen to twenty. Question number seventeen asked whether they had learned English in groups. Fifty four
students 77.14 answered “Yes” and the rest 22.86 answered “No”. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
Furthermore, in question number eighteen, the students were asked about the number of people they wanted to study in a group. Forty six of them 65.71
chose 4-5 people in a group, twenty one students 30 chose 2-3 people, and three students 4.29 chose 5-6 people in a group.
In the next question, the writer asked about the students’ opinion about whether learning in groups could be useful for them in learning English. The
result was that sixty seven students 95.71 said “Yes” and only three students 4.29 said “No”. In addition, for the last question, the students were asked
about their opinion of learning in groups. Fifty five students 78.57 said that they liked learning in groups since it could enable them to understand and do the
task faster. Twelve students 17.14 said that they liked learning in groups because they could relax and four students 5.71 said they didn’t like learning
in groups since it could make the class noisy and disturbed their concentration in studying. From those questions, the writer concluded most of the students realized
that learning in groups was useful for them since it could help them better in learning English.