32 materials would be expected to be appropriate materials for the second grade
students of SMP N 1 Piyungan. The researcher chose SMP N 1 Piyungan because this junior high
school has RSBI Rintisan Sekolah Bertaraf Internasional class. RSBI class is a bilingual class so English becomes very important subject to support
students’ learning activity. The researcher took the data from RSBI class students and teachers who taught RSBI class.
C. Research Instruments
In order to gather the data for the research, the researcher used two kinds of research instruments. They were observation and questionnaire.
1. Classroom Observation
The researcher conducted classroom observation because there are several benefits for the educational researcher. Some major strengths of using
classroom observation allow educators to do the following: 1 permit researchers to study the processes of education in naturalistic settings; 2
provide more detailed and precise evidence than other data sources; and 3 stimulate change and verify that the change occurred. The descriptions of
instructional events that are provided by this method have also been found to lead to improved understanding and better models for improving teaching.
In this study, the researcher conducted classroom observation once. In conducting classroom observation, the researcher focused on four important
things. Fist was about students’ characteristics, second was classroom
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33 activities, third was the reading materials used in English lesson, and the last
was the students’ motivation in joining reading class. The information would very useful to help the researcher to design the appropriate reading materials
based on students’ conditions and students’ needs.
2. Questionnaire
A questionnaire is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions and other prompts for the purpose of gathering information from
respondents. The researcher used questionnaires because they are cheap and does not require much effort. Usually, a questionnaire consists of a number of
questions that the respondent has to answer in a set format. According to Ary 1972, there are two types of questionnaires; there are structured or close
questionnaire and constructed or open questionnaire p. 175. A distinction is made between open-ended and closed-ended questions.
An open-ended question asks the respondent to formulate his own answer, whereas a closed-ended question has the respondent to pick an answer from a
given number of options. In this study, the researcher conducted questionnaire twice. First
questionnaires’ distribution was needs survey questionnaire for the students and second questionnaires’ distribution was for the PBI’s lecturer and the
teachers of SMP N 1 Piyungan for materials evaluation needs. The needs survey questionnaires were distributed to collect the information about
students’ interest and students’ favorite topics. While the evaluation
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34 questionnaires were distributed to gain lecturers’ and teachers’ opinion and
suggestion about the designed materials.
D. Data Gathering Technique
