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Students’ answers then were allocated and analyzed based on the allocation of answers. Finished allocating responses to its position, the writer then counted
the distribution of the responses of each position. Subsequently, all of responses were also converted into percentage to make it easier to observe and draw
conclusion from.
c. Data Collected from the Questionnaire
The results of questionnaire were analyzed by counting the frequencies of the responses collected. For questions number 1 to 6, the writer counts the
frequencies of each answer frequencies of affirmative and negative. Then, the data were converted into percentage to be easier to observe and analyze. For
questions number 7 and 8, because the respondents were able to choose more than one answers, the writer counted how many variations of responses, then counted it
and converted it into percentage. The percentage then was presented in the form of chart in order to make it easier to examine.
F. Research Procedure
The explanation in this section is also divided into two parts: 1 the preliminary research and 2 the descriptive qualitative study.
1. Preliminary Research a. Collecting Data
The first step was to collect the articles from The Jakarta Post website. The issues were in October 2009, every day, selected randomly. It was only the
44 ‘headline’ articles which were taken. The technique of taking the sample can be
seen at section B of this chapter.
b. Computing Readability
The next step was to compute the readability indices of articles using readability formula built-in Microsoft Word 2007.
In this step, the writer was calculating the readability level of collected articles using FRE and FKG in software MS Word 2007. The result of the
computation determined the level of difficulty for each article. After that, the articles were sorted to find easiest one.
c. Selecting the Most Suitable Article
After sorting the articles based on its result from the easiest to the most difficult one, the writer could see which article was the most appropriate to be
given to the first graders of senior high school. This article would be the basis to make a cloze procedure for the next stage of the research.
2. Descriptive Qualitative Study
a. Selecting Participants
Participants for the qualitative study were two classes of first graders from SMA Pangudi Luhur Van Lith,
Muntilan. The participants were Class X1 and Class X5.
b. Collecting Data
In this step, the writer asked the students to do the word association technique, cloze procedure, and questionnaire.
