Abstract
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan pola pencarian informasi serta mengungkapkan faktor pendukung dan penghambat yang mempengaruhi proses pencarian informasi tersebut. Metode penelitian yang digunakan ialah metode kualitatif dengan teknik pengumpulan data yaitu observasi partisipasi pasif serta wawancara semi terstruktur. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pola pencarian informasi para partisipan terdiri dari inisiasi tugas, seleksi tugas, eksplorasi prafokus, pengumpulan informasi, serta penutup pencarian.
Faktor pendukung pola pencarian informasi partisipan terdiri dari motivasi internal, ketersediaan beberapa sumber informasi di SMPLB-B Sana Dharma, kemampuan melakukan analisis melalui penyusunan kesimpulan, serta karakter komunikatif. Sementara faktor penghambat terdiri dari motivasi eksternal, kurangnya kemampuan berbahasa para partisipan, serta ketidakmampuan partisipan dalam mengakses informasi yang ada di internet.
......The aim of this research is to reveal the pattern of information seeking and also the supporting and the inhibitor factors of it. This research used qualitative research method with purposive sampling as the sampling method and passively participate observation and semi structured technique as data collection method. The results of this research showed that information seeking pattern of participants consists of task initiation, task selection, prefocus exploration, information collection, and search closure.
The supporting factors of their information seeking pattern are internal motivation, the availability of some information sources at the partisipant's school, the capability to analyze the information collected by making conclusion, and also the communicative character. The inhibitor factors are external motivation, the lack of language ability, and also the lack of capability to access the information on internet.
