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Students’ Perspectives on Active Students’ Roles in the Classroom

THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan

Ivana Mary Puspitasari
112008036

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
2012

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Students‟ Perspectives on Active Students‟ Roles in the Classroom

THESIS

Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan

Ivana Mary Puspitasari
112008036

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
2012

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Students’ Perspectives on Active Students’ Roles in the Classroom

THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of

Sarjana Pendidikan

Ivana Mary Puspitasari
112008036

Approved by:

Listyani, M. Hum.
Supervisor

Nugrahenny T. Zacharias, Ph. D
Examiner

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Copyright@ 2012. Ivana Mary Puspitasari and Listyani, M. Hum.
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Department, Faculty of Language and Literature, Satya Wacana University,
Salatiga.
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Approved by

Listyani, M. Hum.
Supervisor

Nugrahenny T. Zacharias, Ph. D
Examiner

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STUDENTS‟ PERSPECTIVES ON ACTIVE STUDENTS‟ ROLES 1

STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES ON ACTIVE STUDENTS’
ROLES IN THE CLASSROOM
Ivana Mary Puspitasari

Abstract
In a classroom, some students are active, while some others are passive.
Many researches have been done to find out the factors that cause the students‟
silence but there is very few that looks carefully to the existence of active students
in the classroom as one factor that affects students‟ silence. This study
investigates the students‟ perspectives on the existence of active students as factor
that affects their classroom participation level. There were 20 participants
consisting of students from class year 2007, 2008, and 2009 taken from two
advanced classes, English Language Teaching Management (ELTM), in the
English Department of Satya Wacana Christian University. They were chosen
based on their answers in the questionnaire asking about how they classified
themselves as students (active, passive, or other answers); and question asking
about what things affected their classroom participation. Those who answered that

their classroom participations were affected by the existence of active students
were then interviewed using unstructured interview method to answer the research
question: What effects does an active student have in a particular classroom
toward the other students’ participation level in the classroom? The study found
that the existence of active students in the classroom would make their classmates
(1) reluctant to speak; and (2) motivated to speak, due to various reasons like
personal background and culture; personality of the students; and the quality of
ideas shared by the active students.
Keywords: Active students, classroom participation, classmates, silent,
motivated.

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