C. RESEARCH SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS
As the result of the research is a learning product, this research involved various participants not only students. The descriptions of the setting and the participants are
discussed here.
1. Research Participants
The application or product is designed for midwifery students to learn English. Due to the limited time and capability of the researcher, the focus of the material
development was to support the teaching and learning English especially speaking for midwifery students. Thus, the subjects of the research were 21 midwifery students in
the first semester of ‘Aisyiyah Health Science College of Yogyakarta. In developing the learning model, the researcher also gathered data from various research
participants, the target learners themself, and the experts. There were four experts involved in this research, two experts of materials and two experts of media. The
description of the experts’ background is presented in the table below.
Table. 3.1 The Description of the Expert Validators Respondent
Educational Background
Teaching Experience S1
S2 S3 1-10 10-15 15-25
IT lecturer or IT practitioner - 2
- 2
- -
English lecturer -
2 -
2 -
-
The experts validated the product of the research by giving feedbacks, opinions, and suggestions. The experts of materials were the English lecturers. They gave
feedbacks related to the materials content in the product. Meanwhile, the IT lecturers
were the expert of media in the product and they gave feedbacks on the mechanical aspects of the product.
The target learners or users also validated the product by giving feedbacks, opinion, and suggestions through the questionnaires. They give feedbacks related to
media and material aspects of the product when it was implemented.
2. Research setting
This research was conducted at ‘Aisyiyah Health Sciences College of Yogyakarta. The target users were the first semester midwifery students. The research was
conducted from July – December 2015. The college was located at West Ring Road No 63, Mlangi, Nogotirto, Gamping, Sleman, Yogyakarta.
‘Aisyiyah Health Sciences College of Yogyakarta was taken as the research setting as the college was accessible. It means that the researcher could easily get
information and conduct research in this college. Besides, there were target of research population who were midwifery students. The population was considered to
represent the research targets as they have similar characteristics such as age, gender, motivation, and cultures.
3. Research Instrument
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