Research and Information Collecting Planning Development of the Preliminary Form of Product

31 Planning, Development of the Preliminary Form of Product, Preliminary Field Testing, Main Product Revision, Main Field Testing, Operational Product Revision, Operational Field Testing, Final Product Revision, and Dissemination and Implementation Borg and Gall, 1983: 775. However, the writer only used the first five of the R D cycle steps. Those steps were Research and Information Collecting, Planning, Development of the Preliminary Form of Product, Preliminary Field Testing, and Main Product Revision.

1. Research and Information Collecting

This study focused on designing a set of vocabulary supplementary materials for Reading lesson for the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Godean. To gather the information needed, the writer distributed questionnaires. The questionnaires were divided into two parts. The first part was for the students; meanwhile the second part was for the English teachers. To be more specific, there were a hundred students of SMAN 1 Godean; all of them were at grade eleven. In addition, there were three English teachers of the same school. The information gathered from the students and the teachers was about the vocabulary teaching and learning in class. Besides, the writer also used the review of literature. The review of literature was aimed at obtaining some theories about Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan KTSP, especially finding the reading Competency Standard and Basic Competence of the first semester English syllabus of SMAN 1 Godean grade eleven. In addition, the writer also used the review of literature in order to find as much data about 32 teaching and learning vocabulary as possible, from the educational books, journals, and articles.

2. Planning

Planning includes defining skills, stating objectives, determining course sequence, and small scale feasibility testing Borg and Gall, 1983: 775. Further, they state that the most important aspect of planning a research-based educational product is the statement of the specific objectives to be achieved by the product 1983: 779. The data gathered from the questionnaires and review of literature were used to determine the objectives and the subject contents of the designed materials.

3. Development of the Preliminary Form of Product

The product referred to vocabulary supplementary materials for SMAN 1 Godean grade eleven. Before the product was field tested, the writer needed to develop the form of the product. The data from the research and information collecting was used as the basic of the materials development. The use of the data from research and information collecting was aimed to design the appropriate materials for the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Godean. In addition, the writer also made the product evaluation form. The evaluation was in the form of open-ended and close-ended questionnaire. This made the writer easier to analyze the result and also to get the evaluation and suggestion completely. In this step, the writer listed what kind of aspects which needed to be evaluated by the participants. After all of the items of evaluation were listed, the writer organized those items so that they became more 33 systematically. After that, the writer developed the questions based on those items as well as the choices of the answer so that the participants could answer the questions more easily.

4. Preliminary Field Testing