26 scripted role play to improve their speaking ability in Play Performance class of
English Language Education Study Program in academic year 20142015 in Sanata Dharma University.
B. Research Setting
The researcher conducted this study during semester 20142015 academic year in English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University.
The research was conducted in Play Performance course, classes A and B. The researcher chose those classes because the classes performed the scripted role play
in front of audiences.
C. Research Participants
The participants of this study were the students of English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University who joined Play
Performance class in the academic year 20142015. There were sixty six 66 students in Play Performance class. However, there were only sixty one 61
students who came in the last meeting of Play Performance class. In this research, the participants should answer 36 close-ended questions in the questionnaire that
the researcher provided. The researcher distributed the questionnaire and conducted the interview
with the participants. The questionnaire was distributed to sixty one 61 students in Play Performance class. Then the interview was conducted with thirteen 13
students. These thirteen 13 students were selected based on the lecturer’s
27 suggestion. Moreover, they were the artists who performed the scripted role play
on the stage. Actually there were nineteen 19 students to be interviewed but six 6 students were unavailable for some reasons.
D. Research Instruments
In this study, the researcher used two research instruments, namely a questionnaire and an interview protocol.
1. Questionnaire
According to Cohen, Manion, and Morrison 2003 a questionnaire is a widely used and useful instruments for collecting survey information, providing
structured, often numerical data being able to be administered without the presence of the researcher and often being comparatively straightforward to
analyze p.245. There are two types of questions in the questionnaire. They are open-ended
and close-ended questions. An open-ended question asks the participants to formulate their own question. A close-ended question asks the participants to pick
an answer from the given number of options. Leedy and Ormrod 2005 emphasize that a close-ended question in the questionnaire provides limited
choices to answer and uses simple, clear, and unambiguous language. The researcher provided the close-ended questionnaire in order to limit the choices to
answer.
28 In this study, the questionnaire was in the form of Likert scale. Ary et al.
2002 state that Likert scale assesses attitudes toward the topic by presenting a set of statements about the topic and asking respondents to indicate for each whether
they strongly agree, agree, are undecided, disagree, or strongly disagree p.224. The researcher omitted the undecided option in order to avoid misunderstanding
because the undecided option did not contribute response in this study. Therefore, the researcher used four options to answer the research problems, which were
strongly agree SA, agree A, strongly disagree SD, and disagree D. There were 36 close-ended questions in the questionnaire in this research.
The questions were divided into four parts. The first part is about students’ perception on the implementation of a scripted role play. The second part is about
students’ perception on the impact of a scripted role play. The third part is about students’ perception in performing the scripted role play, and the last part is about
students’ evaluation in performing the scripted role play. The questionnaire could be seen in Appendix C.
2. Interview Protocol
In this study, the researcher used an interview protocol. Ary et al. 2002 state that an interview is
used to gather data on subjects’ opinions, beliefs, and feelings about the situation in their own words. There are three advantages of
doing interview based on Ary et al. 2002. They are 1 supplying large volumes of in-
depths data rather quickly, 2 providing insight on participants’ perspectives, the meaning of events for the people involved, information about the
