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Table 3.2 Interview Blueprint
Question Description
1 - 6 These 6 questions gathered information about the lecturers’
recommendations to solve the problems that the students faced in using Internet for academic purposes
3.4 Data Gathering Technique
The data of this study were gathered by distributing the questionnaires and conducting interviews. The questionnaires were used to know the students’
perceptions on the use of Internet in improving their academic achievements, to know the students’ problems in using Internet for academic purposes and to know the
recommendations of the students to solve the problems. The interviews were used to know the recommendations and solutions of the lecturers to solve the problems which
were faced by the students in using Internet for academic purposes. The questionnaires were distributed in April 2010 to the sixth semester
ELESP students in the academic year of 20092010 of Sanata Dharma University in four Sociolinguistics classes in different days after the writer had the permission from
each lecturer of each Sociolinguistics class. Sociolinguistics classes were chosen because of most of the sixth semester students were taking these classes. Moreover,
Sociolinguistics class is one of the compulsory classes in sixth semester of ELESP. The students were explained the purpose and significance of this survey and were
given more or less 20 minutes to fill in the questionnaires. The writer also gave some
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token of appreciations to the students. After the data from the questionnaires were acquired in two weeks, the interviews of three lecturers of Sanata Dharma University
who teach courses using Internet were conducted in different days within a week.
3.5 Data Analysis Technique
According to Wiersma 1995: 176, “especially for surveys using questionnaires and interviews, background or demographic information about the
respondent is important in that it identifies the individual in terms of classifying variables for the analysis”. The demographic information of the level of students
Internet access was acquired in Part A of the questionnaire. The data were recorded, classified, and the percentage of each response was counted. Then, the average was
counted to determine the major response for each question’s response. The data then were presented in the form of bar graphs and interpreted in words.
Furthermore, in answering the first problem formulation, the writer used five points of scale to gather the students’ perceptions on the use of Internet in improving
their academic achievements in Part D of the questionnaires. The five points of scale were:
1 = Totally Disagree 2 = Disagree
3 = Neutral 4 = Agree
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5 = Totally Agree After collecting the Part D of the questionnaire, the writer analyzed them by
recording and classifying the data in the form of table and discussed them based on the percentage. The percentage of the response of each statement was counted and
followed by the calculation of the average. The average of the total of 20 statements’ responses of the questionnaire was depicted as the students’ perception.
The next step after processing the data of Part D of the questionnaire was analyzing the Part B of the questionnaire to answer the second problem formulation
of this study which was the major problems that students faced in using Internet for academic purposes. The data were classified and counted. Then, the average was
counted into percentage to determine the major response. The result was presented in the form of bar graph and interpreted in words.
Furthermore, the following step was analyzing the Part C of the questionnaire students’ recommendations or solutions to solve the problems and analyzing the
result of interviewing the lecturers to answer the third problem formulation of this study. Qualitative description is used to synthesize the data of students’ responses to
the open-ended questions and lecturers’ interviews. Next, the writer will present the gathered data and data analysis in Chapter IV.
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3.6 Research Procedure
