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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
This chapter describes the findings and discussions of the study and the presentation of the designed materials. This chapter consists of three parts. The
first part is the designing process of the Multiple Intelligences based instructional vocabulary materials. The second part is the findings and discussion on the
designed materials evaluation. The third part is the designed Multiple Intelligences based vocabulary instructional materials for the fourth grade students
of SD Negeri Dayuharjo Yogyakarta.
A. The Designing Process of the Multiple Intelligences Based Instructional Vocabulary Materials
The writer applied Research and Development cycle in designing Multiple Intelligences Based Instructional Vocabulary Materials for the fourth grade
students of SD Negeri Dayuharjo. The steps are information collecting, planning, developing preliminary form of product, preliminary filed testing, and final
product revision.
1. Information Collecting
The writer conducted a needs survey in this step. In order to obtain the data of the students’ needs, the writer distributed the questionnaire to the fourth grade
students of SD Negeri Dayuharjo and interviewed the English teacher.
44 a. Students’ Needs Based on the Questionnaire
There were two classes namely class IV A and class IV B. The total of the students were 51 students. The raw data of the result of the questionnaire on the
needs survey were presented in Appendix C. From the result of needs analysis, 100 of the fourth grade students of SD
Negeri Dayuharjo considered that English is fun. There was only 15.86 of them who joined an English course and 86.27 of the students learned English in order
to recognize the vocabularies. The data shows that most of the students 96.07 would like to be able to pronounce the vocabulary correctly. There were 41.17
of them who thought that English was difficult to learn and the difficulty that they met was in the vocabulary; whereas 58.83 of the students did not consider
English as a difficult lesson. There was 88.23 of the students who said that teaching media were able
to facilitate them in learning English. Related to the students’ point of view of the teaching learning activities, 50.98 of the students preferred studying English
seriously. There was 47.06 of them who chose fun and only 1.96 wished the relaxed condition.
The table also showed that for the most part of the students 47.06 was fond of in arranging, writing and memorizing words, observing things or pictures,
and listening to the music and singing. It was also found that 45.09 of the students who liked to work in group, 41.17 of them liked to arrange puzzle,
33.3 of them enjoyed in observing surroundings. There was only 29.41 of the students who were fond of doing physical movement, 11.77 of them preferred to
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