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Education Study Program and English teachers in SMA Kolese De Britto who have already had the experience in teaching-learning process and the capability in material
design as well as in newspaper journalism. The data were gathered by distributing the questionnaires.
After getting the feedback for the designed materials, the writer began to revise the materials by referring to the evaluations and suggestions on the feedback.
Thus, the final step of designing a set of English instructional materials for journalistic extracurricular activity in SMA Kolese De Britto Yogyakarta was
conducted.
B. Respondents of the Survey
The respondents of the pre-design survey were the students of SMA Kolese De Britto who participated in journalistic extracurricular, the journalistic
extracurricular instructor of SMA Kolese De Britto, and three senior journalists; two journalists of Kompas daily newspaper and one journalists of Kedaulatan Rakyat
daily newspaper. The respondents of the post-design survey were the lecturers of English Language Education Study Program in Sanata Dharma University and
English teachers of SMU Kolese De Britto Yogyakarta. “The groups of people from whom the information is obtained in the research
study are called sample” Fraenkel and Wallen, 1993:79. The sample in this research had been selected through a decision that they would fulfill the researcher’s specific
needs. The process of creating the sample in such way can be called purposive sampling. According to Cohen, Manion, and Morrison 2000:103, purposive
sampling is a method of sampling in which the researcher judge the sample based on
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their typicality and choose the sample for a specific purpose”. The sample was selected non-randomly because the researcher believed that they have the needed
information which could not be obtained from any other sample. The students of journalistic extracurricular were selected because the
researcher could get sufficient information of what the students wanted to achieve in learning newspaper journalism. It was important to obtain such information because
the journalistic extracurricular activity required no any prerequisite. The journalistic extracurricular instructor and the journalists are selected
because they had the reliable expertise in newspaper journalism and they could give big contribution to the development of instructional materials. Everything that is
related to newspaper-journalism materials could be asked to the journalistic extracurricular instructor.
The evaluation of designed materials should be handed to the right person. It was the reason why the lecturers of English Language Education Study Program in
Sanata Dharma University Yogyakarta and the English teachers of SMA Kolese De Britto Yogyakarta were selected as the sample. By their teaching and materials
designing experiences, the designed material can be evaluated then be revised.
C. Research Instrument
In conducting the survey, the instruments play an important role to bridge the researcher and the sample. Through the research instrument, the information can be
transferred. This study used two kinds of research instruments, they were questionnaire and interview.
