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inquire about their preferences, interests and socio-cultural environment. Graves 2002 stated that the data collection procedures of the qualitative method
involved setting the boundaries for the study, which lead to classify the participants in specific area, collecting information through observation, and
establishing the protocol for recording information. Interview is also needed in order to cover in depth elaboration Punch, 2001.
3.3.1 Questionnaire
The data taken from questionnaire are structured and open-ended questions. It gathered the data on students’ needs of English in target situation. Taking all the
criteria mentioned into account, several versions of the students’ profile survey
were created with the intention of designing a suitable instrument that helped this research to gather information about specific characteristics of learners such as
their attitude toward English, elements of access to information they have at home, artistic activities, music, TV program and places as suggested by
Hutchinson and Waters 1987. On the other side, before applying the latest version of the students’ profile survey, two other versions were implemented in
order to confirm its reliability. The final version of
the students’ profile survey consists of twenty questions with multiple answers where students have to either choose different
options or rank their answers into some categories: a lot, more or less, little or nothing. Two parts formed the questionnaire a
re students’ self-assessment in language skills and their opinions about teaching materials, methods, and
assessment. In the self-assessment section, students addressed how much school paid attention to skills, vocabulary and grammar teaching. The second section
elicited students’ opinions about teaching materials, teaching methods and the school’s assessment system.
Wulan Rahmatunisa, 2015 NEEDS ANALYSIS AND COURSE DESIGN FOR ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS STUDENTS OF
VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia |
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perpustakaan.upi.edu
3.3.2 Interview
Interview was used as instrument in collecting data from vocational school teachers. This was chosen to gain information from English teachers of vocational
school in Kuningan in relation to the research questions. The semi-structured interviews were used in this study because they allow for standardized but in-
depth probing of and elaboration on the original response. It enables one to follow a line of inquiry Punch, 2001. The questions were prepared in advanced based
on the theme being investigated. Interview is an interaction between two people, with the interviewer and the interviewee Kvale, 1996. Thus, interview plays a
significant role in qualitative research because interview allows the researcher “to check the accuracy of
– to verify or refute – the impressions she had gained through observat
ions” Fraenkel and Wallen, 2012. Most of the interviews were conducted in Bahasa Indonesia. Nevertheless there were a number of occasions
whereby English was used as the respective respondents felt more comfortable using the language.
3.3.3 Document analysis
