STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARD ENGLISH LESSON IN
VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SALATIGA
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Handini Setiyawati 112010125
ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARD ENGLISH LESSON IN
VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SALATIGA
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Handini Setiyawati
112010125
ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
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STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARD ENGLISH
LESSON IN VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
SALATIGA
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Handini Setiyawati 112010125
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
My deepest gratitude is mostly dedicated to Allah SWT, so that finally I finished my thesis.
I am grateful to my parents; my father Marjono and my mother Sri Lestari- who always supported me when I felt down when I did this thesis.
For my partner in life Amrizal Posledreni Putra who never stop supporting and encouraging me to be taugh when I felt so depressed. Thanks a
lot for always beside me when I was far from my parents.
To allmy participants from SMK N 2 Salatiga, without your willing to answer my questionnaire , I would not be able to finish this thesis. Big thanks for
your help guys. And then thanks a lot for Mr. Khrisna and Mr.Kristyawan
who also help me to give a chance to meet your students for my data collection.
To Tenners who I couldn’t mention one by one, thanks a lot for your
suggestion and your support when I felt so complicated in doing this thesis.
A deep appreciation goes to my dear supervisor, Victoria Usadya Palupi,M.A.ELT. Without your guidance and patience, this thesis would never have been completed.
Thanks to my examiner, Christian Rudianto,M.Aplling. for the willingness to read my thesis and give feedback and comments.
All of ED lecturers who helped and taught me while learning here, I could not finish my thesis without the lesson that you taught me during my study
in ED.
Salatiga,
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university. To the best of my knowledge and my belief, this contains no
material previously published or written by any other person except where due
reference is made in the text.
Copyright@ 2013. Handini Setiyawati and Victoria Usadya Palupi,M.A.ELT.
All rights reserved. No part of this thesis may be reproduced by any means
without the permission of at least one of the copyright owners or the English
Department, Faculty of Language and Literature, Satya Wacana Christian
University, Salatiga.
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Students’ Attitude toward English Lesson in Vocational High School Salatiga.
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STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARD ENGLISH LESSON
IN VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SALATIGA Handini Setiyawati
ABSTRACT
This paper studies the attitudes of Vocational High School 2 Salatiga students towards English lesson in term of their emotional, cognitive and behavioral aspects. English is one of the required courses, but it is not the main course in that school because the students mainly learn about a particular major they took in school. In this study the researcher also examined the role of method and material that were used in class. A total number 88 participants were chosen from three different classes. They were asked to answers the questionnaire and 22 students were choosen to be interviewed in order to get richer data. The study showed that most students have a positive attitude towards English lesson and that they have passion to improve their English. The finding also explored about the students’ obstacles and their suggestion toward English lesson in order to improve the quality of the English learning process.
