The Teacher’s Reason for the Learning Technique of Translation

50 The researcher distributed the questionnaire right after the teacher finished conducting the learning activities. In this study, the researcher managed to distribute and collect the questionnaire in 10 meetings from 14 fourteen meetings of English reading class he observed. The researcher was not able to distribute the questionnaire to the first, third, seventh, and ninth meetings of English reading class he observed. The researcher’s failure in distributing and collecting the questionnaire was because of limited time he had. In those meetings, the teacher finished learning activities when the periods nearly ended so that students did not have enough time to answer the question in the questionnaire. This subchapter is divided into three parts based on students’ general responses to the learning activities. The researcher classified students’ responses into three groups of response; they are positive response, negative response and undecided response. The undecided response refers to response which is a combination response between positive and negative response. In one meeting, all kinds of responses always occur with the different number of students who give the responses. The data on students’ responses are presented in Tables 4.1 and Table 4.2. Meeting Collected Questionnaire Positive Response Negative Response Undecided response 2 nd Meeting 30 7 18 5 4 th Meeting 31 7 13 11 5 th Meeting 29 19 2 8 6 th Meeting 28 17 4 7 8 th Meeting 26 16 7 3 10 th Meeting 31 12 10 9 11 th Meeting 19 8 7 4 12 th Meeting 29 17 5 7 13 th Meeting 24 8 11 5 14 th Meeting 26 7 15 4 51 Table 4.1. Number of Students’ Answers in the Questionnaire Meeting Positive Response Negative Response Undecided response 2 nd Meeting 23.34 60 16.66 4 th Meeting 22.58 41.94 35.48 5 th Meeting 65.52 6.89 27.59 6 th Meeting 60.71 14.29 25.00 8 th Meeting 61.54 26.92 11.54 10 th Meeting 38.71 32.26 29.03 11 th Meeting 42.11 36.84 21.05 12 th Meeting 58.62 17.24 24.14 13 th Meeting 33.33 45.83 20.84 14 th Meeting 26.92 57.69 15.39 Table 4.2. Percentage of Students’ Answers in the Questionnaire

a. Students with Positive Response

Students with positive response are students who stated that they were able to follow the learning activities in English reading class. These students are those who give yes answer in the questionnaire. The number of this response did not always dominate students’ responses on a learning activity. Positive response dominated students’ responses in six of ten English reading classes where the researcher managed to distribute and collect the questionnaire. Students who gave positive response to the learning activities have various specific reasons. These reasons explained why students gave such response on the learning activities they had just had. From students’ reason for their response, the