CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
A. Type of the Research
The objective of this study was to develop a particular educational product. For this reason, it could be classified as Research and Development
RD. This research is also aimed at using the research findings to design new products and procedures as an industry-based development model Borg Gall,
2003.
B. Subjects of the Research
The subjects of the research were the 4
th
grade students of SD Negeri Tempurejo 3 following the Chit
– Chat program with the number of the research subject are 23 students.
C. Setting of the Research
The research was conducted in SD Negeri Tempurejo 3 Blora which is located at Jalan Rembang km.4, Tempurejo, Blora. It was held in 25
th
– 29
th
September 2014.
D. Research Procedure
This section presents the underlying concepts that were used in this research study. The materials development model employed was the model
proposed by Jolly and Bollitho on Tomlinson 1998 with some modification to meet the conditions of the research. The research procedure can be visually
presented in the following chart.
Figure 6: The Procedure of the Research
1 Conducting a need survey In this stage a survey was conducted to learners and teachers
through interview, and questionnaire at SD Negeri Tempurejo 3. The gained data was used to conduct a need analysis in the next stage.
Writing the instructional
materials Writing the
course grid Need Analysis
Need Survey
Lesson plans
Student’s book
Teacher’s guide
Medias Conducting
evaluation and revision of the
materials
The second draft Lesson plans
Student’s book
Teacher’s guide
Flash cards CD of related songs
listening tasks Pop up story book
Pictures Listening
– speaking materials
Implementation
Evaluation and revision
Writing the final draft
Products
2 Conducting a need analysis This stage wa
s aimed to determine the information about students’ need and interest in studying English purposes related to both, real world
and pedagogy, their opinion towards the test they used to have including input, activities, student’s and teacher’s roles, and setting, the guidance
needed in solving the given tests, and difficulties they encountered. 3 Writing the course grid
In this stage, the researcher wrote the course grid of listening –
speaking materials based on Total Physical Response theory and the result of the previous conducted need analysis.
4 Developing the first draft The researcher uses the course grid which had been written in the
previous stage as the guideline to develop the first draft. There were four units in the first draft and each unit was completed by a lesson plan and
media. 5 Evaluating and revising the first draft
After finishing the first draft of the materials, some experts evaluated and gave comments through the questionnaire. In this case, the
experts were two lecturers specialized on English for Children and three Elementary English teacher.
6 Developing the second draft The second draft of the materials was written based on the
suggestion of the experts.
7 Conducting the implementation Having completed the second draft, the materials were
implemented to the fourth grade students of the Chit – Chat program in SD
Negeri Tempurejo 3. The implementation was held in four meetings, a week after the students having finished their final examination.
8 Evaluating and Revising the second draft The second draft was evaluated based on some comments from
students on the questionnaire and the observation sheet. 9 Developing the final draft
The revising draft based on the students’ opinion then was called as the final draft.
E. Research Instruments
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