the total number of students based on the degree agreement n: the number of all students

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1. Research and Information Collecting

Before the writer designed the developing materials, she had done some steps to gather information. The information was about English Mastery available and MI of the students. The information gathered hopefully could be used to help the writer in designing the English speaking material.

a. Data of Respondents

For the need of research, the writers asked for some students to be respondents of the research. The respondents are students of English Mastery of Level 1. There are six respondents who participated in gathering the research data through answering questionnaire. The data of the respondents are presented in the table below. To be noted, the names in the table are not the real names of the participants in order to keep the respondents’ privacy. Table 4.1 Data of Respondents No Name EM Level Age year

1. Adinda Oktalia

1 15

2. Mira Jamila

1 15

3. Maria Diah A.

1 15

4. Dian Indri

1 16

5. Arifin Huda

1 16

6. Rista Shintia

1 15 As presented above, the respondents of this research are six students of English Mastery. All of them are in the Level 1 of English Mastery. At the fact, in public schools, all of them are in the first grade of seniorvocational high school. The range of the students’ age is 15 to 16 years old. 48 Below is the data of students’ age who become the respondents of this research: Table 4.2 Data of Respondents Age Gender Age in years Total 15 16 Female 4 1 5 Male - 1 1 Total 6

b. The Result of the Interview

The interview held was used to gather information which could be used to help the writer design the English speaking material. The interview was done through informal interview see Appendix D. The information gathered was about the purpose of developing English Mastery’s module of Level I which is including materials, resources and methodologies which were used. Based on the result of the interview with the tutors’ coordinator and the students, a development of the module of English Mastery Program for Level 1 is needed. The development is needed since the students’ knowledge is changing. Therefore, the module of English Mastery can help and facilitate the students’ need. The materials in the module hopefully can support their English they have got at school and their English which is used in their daily life. Since the purpose of the development module for Level I of English Mastery is to facilitate students’ need and to support their English they have gotten at school, the writer decided to make the topics based on the last module used which are related to their daily life. The writer decided to use some topics from the last module since the topics are