English Education Study Program – STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat

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NEED ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS PAKET C IN LEARNING ENGLISH

(At PKBM Lubuk Alai)

Noviwi Halenci

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, Lili Perpisa

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, Yendra

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1)English Education Departmet, STKIP PGRI West Sumatera, Gunung Pangilun-Padang email: [email protected]

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Abstract

This research is covered because English is foreign language and difficult for students. This research purpose is to analysis kejar paket C students’ need in learning English at PKBM Lubuk Alai.

The students’ need is concerned about the students’ necessities, lacks, and wants. This research uses basic interpretive or basic qualitative design. The data is gotten from 22 students of kejar paket based on random sampling. In collecting the data, the researcher interviews the participants one by one.

Moreover, the researcher uses audio recorder and takes the field note during collect the data. Therefore, the researcher finds the result of the research : (1) Students’ necessity, students need to increase the vocabulary, need the fun learning atmosphere, need to know how to pronounce the words, need more practice such as make conversation with friends, need to learn how to arranging the words into a sentence. (2) Students’ wants, students want fun classroom atmosphere such as listening the song in listening activity and using the picture to increase the vocabulary, and they want the teacher explain the lesson repeatedly and translate into Indonesia. (3) Students’ lacks, the students is lack of vocabulary, get trouble to pronounce the words, and get difficult to arranging the words into sentence

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi karena bahasa Inggris merupakan bahasa asing bagi siswa sehingga sangat sulit untuk dipahami. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis kebutuhan siswa kejar paket c dalam belajar bahasa Inggris di PKBM Lubuk Alai. Adapun kebutuhan siswa dalam pembelajaran bahasa Inggris ini terdiri dari tiga kategori yaitu, kebutuhan siswa (students’ necessity), kelebihan siswa (students’ want), dan kekurangan siswa (students’ lack). Adapun jenis dan pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah basic interpretive / qualitative yang termasuk ke dalam ranah penelitian kualitatif. Di samping itu, penelitian ini ditujukan kepada 22 siswa kejar paket c didasarkan pada random sampling. Selanjutnya, pada proses pengumpulan data, peneliti mewawancara siswa satu per satu. Peneliti juga merekam menggunakan audio recorder dan membuat field note selama proses wawancara berlangsung. Dengan demikian, peneliti mendapatkan hasil penelitian sebagai berikut : (1) students’ necessity yaitu, siswa perlu memperkaya kosa kata dalam bahasa Inggris, siswa butuh suasana kelas yang menyenangkan selama belajar, siswa perlu belajar bagaimana mengucapkan kata, siswa butuh lebih banyak praktek, siswa butuh belajar bagaimana menyusun kata-kata menjadi sebuah kalimat. (2) students’ want yaitu, siswa ingin kelas yang menyenangkan dan tidak tegang seperti mendengarkan musik dalam belajar mendengarkan dan menggunakan gambar untuk menambah kosa kata, dan siswa ingin guru menjelaskan pelajaran berulang-ulang dan diterjemahkan dalam bahasa Indonesia. (3) students’ lack yaitu, siswa memiliki sedikit sekali kosa kata dalam bahasa Inggris, siswa kesulitan dalam mengucapkan kata, dan kesulitan dalam menyusun kata-kata menjadi sebuah kalimat.

Key Words: students’ necessities; students’ wants; Students’ lacks

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INTRODUCTION

Kejar paket c is one of non formal education program that equalto senior high school in formal education. This program has purpose like formal education to improve the ability and intellectual of students. The students of Kejar Paket C are different than students of formal education.

The students have different background of knowledge, learning style, vary in term of age, and different emotional. The students of Kejar Paket C have different motivation in learning because learning is not the priority for them. They only learn three times in a week with limited time. Learning is like additional activity, especially in learning English which is a foreign language for them As pre-observation of the researcher, the researcher finds several problems of students Kejar Paket C in learning English. The students have low comprehension in learning English bacause they do not know the meaning of words or lack of vocabulary. Sometimes the students often do not attend to the class because 80%

of students are working, they have to work and must be completed their work. It is like the students never repeat or enrich vocabulary outside learning in the school.

The problem is closely related to the results of the final value english lessons that have been learned by the students, through the observation of most of the students scored that does not satisfy.

Therefore, it is important for the teachers to know more about the students.

important for the teacher to finds the students needs through needs analysis before teaching learning process is conducted.

Based on Hyland (2006:73), Need analysis refers to the techniques for collecting and assessing information relevant to course design. It means that need analysis is a contionuous process, since the teachers will modify the teaching process as the teachers come to learn more about the students

In addition, Paltridge and Strafield (2013:326) explain that need analysis has some formal concepts. The concepts are terms of target situation anlysis and present situation analysis. But, the researcher focuses on target situation only. The target situation analysis is concerned about the

“needs” of the students and the present situation analysis means the “lacks”, and

“wants” of the students. All of the information about needs, lacks, wants of the

students will be considered as based material for the teachers to do the need analysis of the students and the teachear can fulfill all of the students need.

Therefore, the researcher want to know about need analysis of students paket c in learning English, especially at PKBM Lubuk Alai

RESEARCH METHOD

This research is conducted in basic interpretive research with qualitative method. The purpose of the research is to analysis the need of students kejar paket c in learning English at PKBM Lubuk Alai. The data is gotten from 22 students based on random sampling. In collecting the data, the researcher uses unstructur interview as intsrument. Beside that, the researcher also takes field note during interview the participants. After collecting the data, the researcher analyze the data and classify based on the students’ need

FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

After getting the data, the researcher found the data based on the research question in chapter I. In the research question in chapter I, “What are Kejar Paket C students’ necessities, wants, ande lacks in learning English at PKBM Lubuk Alai?”. From the unstructured interview which is trasncripts have been analyzed before, it is found that students’

necessities, wants, ande lacks in learning English at PKBM Lubuk Alai.

First, the students’ necessities are need to increase their vocabulary to understand the lesson well. It can start from the things around them or use the picture to help them memorize the vocabulary easily.

It can be seen from the information that has given by the participant 2 which is written bellow:

L38 Researcher : What does the media that you need to understand the lesson ?

L40 Participant : Using picture L41 Researcher : What do you mean?

L42 Participant : For example, the teacher give a picture, and explain it after that translate into Indonesia

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Moreover, reading activity is needed by the students to know how to pronounce the words and it also can help them to increase their vicabulary.

Furhermore, in speaking activity students need more about practice such as make conversation with friends. In writing activity, the students need to practice arranging the words into sentences. Then, in learn listening the students need to know more about vocabulary and discussion with the teacher or friends about the meaning what they hear. Furthermore, The students need English handbook that refer to the curriculum and they can review what they have learned.

Then the students’ wants. In learning English the students want fun classroom atmophere such as listening the song in listening activity and using the picture to increase the vocabulary. In learn reading, the students want the teacher teach how to pronounce word by word. In writing activity, the students want to practice arranging the words into sentence and more exercise to write. Meanwhile, the students want the teacher explain the lesson repeatedly and translate into Indonesia. It can be seen from the information that has given by participant 14 which is written bellow:

L24 Researcher : How does the wayof learning English that you like?

L25 Participant : I want the teacher explain the lesson repeatedly and translate into Indonesia The last is students’ lacks. The students feel English is difficult to learn because it is foreign language for them.

Furthermore, the students have minimum vocabulry therefore they are difficult to understand the lesson and become unactive at the class. Because of it, the students have problem to comprehend in learn listening. In speaking and reading activity, they get trouble to pronounce the words. This is relevant with information that has given by the participant 3 which is written bellow:

Line 23 R: What does your problems while learning English?

Line 24 P: Difficult to understand the meaning, and how to pronounce the words

Meanwhile, in learn writing the students difficult to arranging the words into sentence

CONCLUSION

In summarize, the researcher gets the students’ need in learning English at PKBM Lubuk Alai. The students need to increase the vocabulary, need more practice about pronounce in speaking and reading activity, need to practice how to arranging the words into sentence, the tecaher have to explain the lesson repeatedly and into Indonesia, and the students need English handbook that refer to curriculum so they can review what they have learned

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The researcher would like to express her sincere gratitude to the first advisor, Lili Perpisa,S.S.,M.Pd, for the continuous support of her research, motivation, enthusiasm, and immense knowledge, her guidance helped in all the time of research and writing of this thesis. The researcher’s sincere thanks also go to the second advisor, Yendra,S.S.,M.Hum, for her guidance, advices, time, ideas, suggestions, comments and supports to the researcher during the process of completing this thesis.

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