First Questionnaire Research Instruments

1. First Questionnaire

The first questionnaire was intended for the students. It was used to find some information about students’ characteristics and needs of English learning. There were 20 items in this questionnaire. a. Validity To fulfill the validity requirements for the first questionnaire, the researcher used construct validity. To obtain the construct validity, the researcher consulted the outline of the questionnaire to the first supervisor to know whether or not the questionnaire was capable of providing information about students’ characteristics and needs. Some references used to know the students’ profiles, previous knowledge, and attitudes toward English, interest, learning style, learning goal, and expectation Tomlinson, 1998; Hutchinson and Waters, 1987; Punter, 2006. The organization of the first questionnaire is presented as follows. Table 3: The Blueprint of the First Questionnaire for Need Analysis The purpose of the questions The content of the questions Item numbers References To get information related to the students’ profile - Age - Sex - Educational Background - Cultural background Part A Tomlinson 1998: 240 To get information related to the students’ background knowledge - Teaching style - Students’ previous knowledge - Students’ attitudes toward English 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Hutchinson and Waters 1987: 63 To get information related to the students’ interest - Interests 7, 8, 9, 10 Tomlinson 1998: 240 To get information related to the students’ needs about listening and speaking task - Learning style - Learning goals and expectation 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 Tomlinson 1998: 240 Pinter 2006: 60- 61 b. Reliability There were three steps conducted to show the reliability of the questionnaire. First, the questionnaire was administrated to 23 students as the subject of the study. There are 5 possible points; 5 points for Strongly Agree SA, 4 points for Agree A, 3 points for Neutral N, 2 points for Disagree DA, and 1 point for Strongly Disagree SA. Second, the questionnaires were recapitulated after all the questionnaires are given back to the researcher. Third, the Alpha Cronbach formula was used to find the reliability coefficient of the questionnaire.

2. Second Questionnaire