The aims of this research were: 1) to know the students’ perception of teaching
learning process in scientific writing class. 2) to know the factors that influence the
students’ perception of scientific writing class.
This research was conducted at Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto. The
data of the research was collected on April 6, 2010. The samples of this research were
38 students from the sixth semester students of Muhammadiyah University of
Purwokerto. The writer took the sample by using random sampling. In collecting the
data the writer used questionnaire as the instuments of the research. The method used
descriptive qualitative.
Having analyzed the data, the writer found that the average of students’
perception of teaching learning process in scientific writing class on the sixth
semester students of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto academic year
2009/2010 was 3.834 and it belongs to a good category. The students who have very
good perception of scientific writing were 10 students (4.001-5), and the students
who have good perception of scientific writing were 28 students (3.001-4). It could
be said that most of the respondents had positive perception of teaching learning
process in scientific writing class. Based on the computation result of this research,
there were five factors influencing the students perception; (1) Linguistic factor was
20.56%, (2) Students factor was 21.68%, (3) Teacher factor was 19.30%, (4) The Use
of Instuctional Method was 20.28%, (5) The Use of Facilities and Instuctional Media
was 18.18%. It could be said that the factor that influences much the students’
perception of scientific writing class is student’s factor.