INFLUENCING FACTORS ON DOING ENGLISH SUBJECT HOMEWORK AMONG SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Abstract
This research discusses the factors that can influence the students to do or not to do
English subject Homework. Doing homework is very closely related to the learning
process of Senior High School students by which students can gain knowledge and
solve the problems. Firstly, this study investigated deeply about the influencing
factors for doing or not doing the English subject homework. Secondly, this study
aimed to find out the difficulties faced by students in doing the English homework.
Lastly, this study aimed to find out the strategies used to solve those difficulties in
doing the homework. A descriptive qualitative design was used as the methodology.
Three students in the third grades of Senior High School in Tegal were interviewed in
the data collection. The findings of this study discovered that the reasons for doing
English subject homework were categorized into students’ character, school grades,
and class discussion on homework. Then, the reasons for not doing English subject
homework were categorized into family disturbance and mood. Moreover, the
difficulties faced by students were divided into lack of understanding English subject
homework contents, lack of grammatical mastery, and lack of vocabularies. The
strategies to solve the difficulties were asking friends and teacher, finding a cozy
place, using dictionaries, and searching on the internet.