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suitable to improve students’ reading skills. In addition, it was also aimed at finding out the instructors’ feedback of the designed materials in order to improve the
designed materials.
Table 2. The Description of the Respondents Sex
Educational Background
Teaching Experience years
Group of Respondents
F M
D3 S1
S2 1-5
6-10 10
Teachers 4
4 2
2 Instructors
3 3
3
C. Research Instruments
To find out whether the proposed instructional materials for the first year students of SMP N 3 Sleman were acceptable or not, the writer employed some
instruments. They were as follows.
1. For the First Survey
The writer decided to use questionnaires and interviews as the instruments for collecting the data of the first survey. There are two types of questionnaires, namely
structured or closed form and unstructured or open form Ary et al., 1990: 424. The closed form contains the question and alternative answers. It means in the structured
questionnaire the answers have been written down so that the respondents only choose the options. While in the unstructured questionnaire, the respondents are free
to give their answers. In this study, the writer decided to distribute structured questionnaire to the first grade students of SMP N 3 Sleman since the writer would
like to avoid their confusion and difficulties in finding the answers to the questions.
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While for interviews, there are two basic types of questions used in an interview Ary et al., 1990: 418. They are structured and unstructured interview.
Unstructured interview permits a free response from the respondents to answer the question rather than restricts the response to a choice from among stated alternatives.
In structured interview, the interviewer reads the questions and presents the respondents with various alternative response options. In this study, the writer used
unstructured interview. Through this interview the writer obtained information about the characteristics and the needs of the first grade students of SMP N 3 Sleman. The
interview was done until all information and evaluation needed were obtain ed.
2. For the Second Survey
To obtain feedback of the designed materials, the writer decided to distribute the unstructured questionnaire. It was distributed to the English teachers of SMP N 3
Sleman and to the English language instructors of ALPHA Englis h Course Yogyakarta after the writer finished designing the instructional materials. The writer
used the questionnaire to obtain the respondents’ opinions about the designed materials. The respondents were required to choose one of the five points of
evaluation from 1 to 5. The results would be the basis of materials evaluation.
D. Data Collection
