Data Analysis Technique RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

43 teaching technique rather than only having lecturing activity like they usually had. The games here are used as the interesting means for teaching the students since it has entertaining side. The games also contain certain activities that required students’ movement or physical skill development. The contents of the designed materials are believed to be suitable to the students’ characteristics. Then, the researcher presented the proposal of the research to the supervisor. The research proposal then was being evaluated by the supervisor. There were any revision drafts for the researcher to work on. After all of the revision and final draft of the research proposal had done, the supervisor then gave permission for the researcher to start the research at school. By having the allowance, the researcher could get the permission letter from Sanata Dharma University to do research at school. Then, the researcher asked for permission to the headmaster of SMP Taman Dewasa Jetis Yogyakarta. In designing and developing the materials, the researcher used RD cycle proposed by Gall, Gall, and Borg 2007 as the base. In this model, there were ten cycles included. Otherwise, this research summarized them into five main steps. The steps include 1 needs survey, 2 planning, 3 material development 4 material validation, and 5 revising. In the first step, the researcher collected the data from the students and the teacher of the conversation class. The data and information were mostly gathered by having interview with the teacher of the conversation class and the questionnaire that was distributed to the students of the class. 44 In the second step, the researcher did some planning. It was about what the researcher was going to do in the research. It included the goals that were specifically explained in form of learning objectives conducted by the researcher. In this step, the researcher found out the students’ characteristics and the kinds of material they usually use. The instruments were prepared as well in this step. Then, the next step was developing material. In this step, the researcher designed the material that is suitable to the students’ needs. This material is regarded as suitable, applicable, and fit to the students ’ and teacher’s needs. The material referred to the curriculum used by the teacher of the conversation class. In the next step material validation, the researcher distributed questionnaires to five respondents; one English teacher of SMP Taman Dewasa ’s conversation class, one English teacher of SMPN 1 Sentolo, one English teacher of SMP Pangudi Luhur 1 ’s conversation class, one English tutor of Alpha English Course, and one English lecturer of Sampoerna University. This questionnaire was for the researcher revised and improved the designed materials with the help of the expertise and expert users. The last step was the revision of the designed materials. In this step, the researcher had to revise and improve the designed materials in order to get the best and the most suitable materials for the students of the conversation class. After all of the cycles of the research had done, the last step in the research was reporting the results of the research.