25 2002,
“the goal of qualitative research is to get a description and to gain depth understanding of some groups or some phenomena” p.25. In this study, the
description would be about the ability of microteaching students of the English Language Education Study Program Sanata Dharma University, as the group
represented, in designing coherent learning objectives and learning activities. To determine the number of lesson plans that had coherent learning
objectives and learning activities and to see the percentage of the problems that occurred in the design of coherent learning objectives and learning activities, the
researcher should employ quantitative research. It deals with numeric data. According to Ary, Jacobs,
Razavieh 2002,” quantitative research uses objective measurement and statistical analysis of numeric data to understand and
explain phenomena. In this study, the quantitative data is derived from the quantification of the assessment result toward the lesson plans.
B. Research Setting
This study was conducted in Sanata Dharma University in February until April 2012. It was in accordance with the availability of microteaching class
which was offered in the even semester.
C. Research Participants
There were seven participants from seven microteaching classes in this research. One student would represent each class. They were sixth semester
students of the English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma
26 University of the academic year 2009. This number of participants would be the
representative of microteaching students ’ ability in designing coherent learning
objectives and learning activities. As what Ary, Jacobs, Razavieh 2002 explained that qualitative research tried to obtain sample of observations which
believed to be sufficient to provide data and understanding on what the researcher was going to study. In other words, the result of the research conducted would be
the representative of the group p.428. Microteaching students were required to design a lesson plan first before
implementing the teaching practice in microteaching class. In this study, the participants involved should be the one who designed lesson plan for the aim of
teaching writing skills. There were around four of five students who did that for each class. For two classes, the researcher got the lesson plans from the lecturers.
For other classes, the researcher got the lesson plans directly from the students. The lesson plan that presented the most complete elements and clear instructions
would be the main data of this research and be the representative of each class. There were other considerations for choosing the participants.
Microteaching students had taken some compulsory courses such as Instructional Design course, Language Learning Assessment course, and also Curriculum
Material and Development course in the previous semester which became their models in designing a good lesson plan before they came to the microteaching
class. In other words, they have already gained and understood the theory or principle of designing a lesson plan. The next consideration was that sixth
semester students were also prepared to face Program Pengalaman Lapangan in
27 the following semester. It was important for them to be able to design the coherent
learning objectives and learning activities so that later they would be successful in teaching their students.
D. Research Instruments
