Research Participants Research Instruments

B. Research Participants

This study was carried out in SMAN 1 Depok Yogyakarta. The participants of this research were the students of 11 th grade and the English teachers of 11 th grade. Since this study was aimed at the 11 th grade students of Senior High School in general, this study took both Social and Science Program classes as research samples. The survey was conducted to 1 class of Social Program and 1 class of Science Program. Those participants used the same English textbook for English lesson, which suited to the content standard of School-based Curriculum. The other participants in this study were three English teachers of the classes being surveyed, an English instructor from an educational institution and a lecturer of English Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. These five participants were to give comment and evaluation to the designed grammar materials.

C. Research Instruments

In this study, there were two instruments used by writer to collect data. These instruments were questionnaire and interview. 1. Questionnaire Best 1970: 162 - 163 stated that there are two types of questionnaire, namely “restricted or closed-form” and “unrestricted or open-form.” Closed- form questionnaire calls for short check response, while open-form calls for free response in the respondents’ own words. Hence, the writer composed closed and open questionnaires. Closed-form questionnaire consisted of PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI statements about grammar learning which are supplied with points of agreements to be chosen by the participants, while open questionnaire provided some spaces to be filled by them related to their further opinions or suggestions about grammar learning. The questionnaire was also distributed to the materials evaluators to collect data about their opinions and evaluations to the designed grammar materials. 2. Interview Seliger and Shahomy 1986: 166 suggested that an interview was conducted to obtain information by talking to the subject. In this study, the interview was conducted to two English teachers of 11 th grade of SMAN 1 Depok, Yogyakarta. One English teacher handled the science program class and the other handled the social program class. This interview was to find out further information about students’ needs in learning English grammar from teachers’ point of views.

D. Data Gathering Technique