Students Lecturers Research Participants

29 To answer the third research question, the researcher employed documentcontent analysis. From the questionnaires, classification tables and interview transcripts the researcher compared, contrasted, and categorized the findings to the theories used in the research Gall, et., all, 2007. The first process in analyzing the findings was specifying research questions or objectives. The second, the researcher selected the documents to analyze. The last process, the researcher coded the data and interpreted the results.

B. Research Participants

The populations of this research were students and lecturers in English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University.

1. Students

The first group of participants belongs to students of English Language Education in academic year of 2007 and 2008. From the first group, the researcher took students from Matakuliah Kealian Berkarya MKB and linguistic classes, namely RELT Research in English Language Teaching and Sociolinguistics for 2007 batch and AMT Approach, Method and Techniques and Phonetics and Phonology for 2008 batch. Each class was divided into 4 four smaller classes; class A, B, C, and D. The researches were conducted in classes with higher occurrence of worksheet use. Questionnaires were distributed in class B of Sociolinguistics, class D of RELT, class A of Phonetics and Phonology, and class B of AMT. Those classes were chosen as representatives with consideration of the high occurrence of 30 worksheets distribution from lecturers than in other classes. The numbers of research participants in each class were 35 students in Sociolinguistics class, 34 students in RELT class, 36 students in Phonetics and Phonology class, and 33 students in AMT class. Hence, there were 138 one hundred and thirty eight students as the participants. Those amounts were considered representing the whole students in English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. The interview participants were chosen based on the qualification of students with good, average, and poor perception on the use of worksheet in learning process from the questionnaire. Nevertheless, since there was no student had poor perception, in interview section, 2 two students from each class were involved as the interview participants. So, there would be 8 eight students participants representing the first group of participants.

2. Lecturers

The second group of participants was the lecturers who taught linguistics andor Matakuliah Kealian Berkarya MKB in English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. In conducting the interview for lecturers, the researcher chose 3 three lecturers based on the class in which the research data were gained and based on the frequency of using worksheets in teaching process. Different students and different lecturers certainly had different opinion with regards to their motivation and needs in the use of worksheets. This phenomenon would be an interesting topic to discuss through research. 31

C. Research Instruments