The Influences of Role Play on Students’ Motivation

25 used in this research, since the research tried to investigate the student s’ perception on the use of a scripted role play in Play Performance class. The use of a survey method in this research was appropriate since it dealt with population. According to Fraenkel and Wallen 2008 the major purpose of survey is to describe the characteristics of population. Fraenkel and Wallen 2008 mention three major characteristics of a survey research. First characteristic is that the information is acquired to describe some aspects or characteristics such as opinions of certain group. Second characteristic is that the information is gathered by asking questions to the group members. Third characteristic is that the information is collected from sample of population p.390. As the review of those characteristics above, a survey was appropriate to be applied to answer the research questions. The researcher would like to know the students’ perception on the use of a scripted role play in Play Performance class. Besides, the information was gathered by asking questions to the students of the English Language Education Study Program in academic year 20142015 who joined Play Performance class. After asking questions, the researcher interviewed some students in Play Performance class. There were two questions in this research. The first research question was intended to know the implementation of a scripted role play to improve students’ speaking ability in Play Performance class of English Language Education Study Program in academic year 20142015 in Sanata Dharma University. The second research question was intended to know the students’ perception on the use of a 26 scripted role play to improve their speaking ability in Play Performance class of English Language Education Study Program in academic year 20142015 in Sanata Dharma University.

B. Research Setting

The researcher conducted this study during semester 20142015 academic year in English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. The research was conducted in Play Performance course, classes A and B. The researcher chose those classes because the classes performed the scripted role play in front of audiences.

C. Research Participants

The participants of this study were the students of English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University who joined Play Performance class in the academic year 20142015. There were sixty six 66 students in Play Performance class. However, there were only sixty one 61 students who came in the last meeting of Play Performance class. In this research, the participants should answer 36 close-ended questions in the questionnaire that the researcher provided. The researcher distributed the questionnaire and conducted the interview with the participants. The questionnaire was distributed to sixty one 61 students in Play Performance class. Then the interview was conducted with thirteen 13 students. These thirteen 13 students were selected based on the lecturer’s