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1. Observation Checklist
It was applied during school observation to survey the support services in the school. The checklist contained several things to be observed. From the
observation checklist, the information about school’s facilities and equipments will be gained. The checklist could be seen in Appendix B.
2. A List of Interview Questions
According to Ary et al. 2002, interviews are used to gather data on subjects’ opinions, beliefs, and feelings about the situation in their own words p.
434. The data gathered through the answers from the questions that are given during the interview. They are two types of interviews, structured and
unstructured Ary et al., 2002, p. 434. The differences are on the type of questions, such as open-questions or closed-questions, and also the setting of the
interview, planned or unplanned. In this research, the researcher applied the unstructured interview for research and information collecting step.
The researcher interviewed two English teachers of SMA Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta with open questions type. The questions appeared during the
interview based on the interview guideline. In other words, the interview was unplanned and the questions arose based on the teachers’ responses. In this
unstructured interview, the researcher gathered data from the teachers as the participants about their opinions and views related to students’ characteristics,
students’ problem in English learning, English materials used in school, and their needs related to English learning materials. In the preliminary field testing, the
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researcher also did the unstructured interview to some experts. This interview was used to gather the clear evaluation or feedback from the teachers and lecturers.
3. Questionnaires
In this research, the researcher used two questionnaires. First, the questionnaire was distributed to science students in the eleventh grade of SMA
Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta in the academic year of 20112012. The questions were closed-form and open-form. The closed-form questions were used to gather
the data about students’ difficulties,students’ opinion about reading class activity, and students’ opinion about reading material given in school. The open-form
questions were used to know students’ interest toward certain topics to be included in reading material and students’ opinion about material and reading
class improvement. Absolutely, the questionnaire above was used in the research and information collecting step.
The second questionnaire was distributed to the respondents in field- testing step. The questionnaire was used to gain the feedbak from the respondents.
The respondents were two lecturers of English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University and one English teacher of SMA Pangudi
Luhur Yogyakarta. The researcher asked two lecturers in order to get more
opinion related to the product, meanwhile the researcher asked the teacher in order to gather the evaluation whether the product has fullfiled their needs or not. The
questions in the questionnaire were open form in order to gain the complete and clear evalution or feedback and comments or suggestions from the respondents
related to the product. The questionnaire could be seen in Appendix C.
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4. Data Gathering Technique
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