Research and Information Collecting Planning Develop Preliminary Form of Product Preliminary Field Testing

1. Research and Information Collecting

In this study, the researcher conducted an interview with the English Club teacher to gather the students’ needs, classroom situation, and learning attitudes towards English club class, especially speaking class. The details of the participants are explained i n the “Research Participants” section. Before conducting the interview, the researcher observed the class to know the students’ characteristics and the problems they were facing such as the lack of speaking practice during learning process. The researcher also had a small chance to show a jazz chant in front of the class.

2. Planning

According to Borg and Gall 1983, the most important aspect of planning a research-based educational product is the statement of the specific objectives to be achieved by the product. In this planning step, the researcher formulated the goals, topics, general purpose, and learning objectives.

3. Develop Preliminary Form of Product

In this stage, the researcher listed the subject content and select the teaching and learning activities that is going to be designed in the speaking materials. According to Borg and Gall 1983, an important principle that should be observed in developing the preliminary form of an educational product is to structure the product. The researcher used Jazz Chants from different people such as Carolyn Graham, Melanie Graham, and Stanton Procter as the resources in making the subject contents and selecting teaching and learning activities. Graham 2006 states that a jazz chant is a useful tool for working on the sound system of English and in particular for developing an ear for the correct stress and intonation patterns of the spoken language.

4. Preliminary Field Testing

According to Borg and Gall 1983, the purpose of this step is to obtain an initial qualitative evaluation of the new educational product. In this step, the researcher distributed a questionnaire to get a feedback and evaluation from the experts.

5. Main Product Revision