learning technique. The selection of the lecturers considered that the writer dealt with both designing materials and applying particular technique and approach.
Furthermore, those lecturers have been teaching English for more than twenty years. Therefore, they were expected to give beneficial input in evaluating the
designed materials.
C. Research Instruments
The study used some instruments for the sake of obtaining the data and the information that would be needed. The writer utilized three kinds of instruments
that took significant role in designing the materials. They were interview sheet, observation check list, and questionnaire sheet.
1. Interview Sheet
Kvale as cited by Cohen and Manion 2000: 267 states that interview can provide someone’s belief, opinion, and feeling towards particular phenomena or
situation. The writer decided to conduct an interview to gather data related to the students’ characteristics, students ability, the teaching-learning activities, and
some factors which influenced those points. By doing so, it is highly expected that the information given would help the writer much in accomplishing the research.
Ary, Jacob and Razavieh 2002: 174 state that there are two types of interview, namely “structured-form and unstructured-form.” Structured-form limits the
participants with some provided options of the answers. On the contrary, unstructured-form gives participants freedom to answer the questions. Therefore,
the writer chose unstructured-form to be applied in the interview. Using
unstructured-form, the writer expected to obtain complete information for the reason that the participants could explore their answers. Purposefully, the
interview was conducted in Indonesian so that the interviewee could provide the required information unreservedly without being frustrated with the correct
grammar and proper pronunciation. The writer provided several questions that would be answered by the English teacher. The questions aimed at finding out the
students’ characteristics, the students’ interest in story, the students’ English proficiency, and the appropriate designed materials for the eleventh grade students
of senior high school. This instrument aimed at helping the writer to answer the first question as stated in the Problem Formulation. The list of the questions is
attached in Appendix B on page 72.
2. Observation Check List
Fraenkel and Wallen 1993: 384 state that observation is a certain kind of research that can be done by observing “how people act or how things look.” The
writer really needed to do observation to recognize the characteristic of the participants and to predict the students’ reactions towards particular approach and
technique. The writer used a check list in the observation for its practical. According to Best 1981: 162, the observer has to provide the items that will be
observed before doing the observation. The absence or presence of the items is
represented by checking ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ In this way, the observer just simply put a
tick in each item. This kind of systematized observation helped the observer to focus on the important parts only. This instrument was required to help the writer
to answer the first question of the Problem Formulation. The detailed observation check list is presented in Appendix B on page 73.
3. Questionnaire Sheet
