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3. Questionnaires
A questionnaire is a quick and simple way to obtain rich information about aspects of classroom and teaching method Hopkins, 2008. In this study, the
researcher distributed the questionnaires to all students of class X Accountancy 2 in the preliminary study and in the end of each cycle of games implementation.
The purpose of the questionnaire was to obtain information from the students themselves whether games helped them improve their writing skill in composing
an informal memo and an informal invitation letter. The researcher employed two types of item responses mentioned by Burns 1999, namely close-ended items
and open- ended items. In the preliminary study, there were thirteen numbers of close- ended items and three numbers of open-ended items. In the end of each
cycle, there wereeleven numbers of close- ended items and five numbers of open- ended items.
4. Interviews
The interviews helped the researcher obtain more information from the students
’ opinion. Gall et al. 2007 state that interview “involves asking a series
of structured questions and then probing more deeply with open-form questions to
obtain additional information” p. 246. In the preliminary study, the interview
was conducted to the English teacher in order to obtain more data on
the students’
difficulties in composing short functional English texts. There were four main questions in interviewing the English teacher. The interview was also conducted
to ten students whose answers in the questionnaire really supported the study. The
30 interview was conducted to ten X Accountancy 2 students of SMK Putra Tama
Bantul in the end of the second cycle.
It aimed to know the students’ further
opinion of games implementation whether games could improve their writing skill in composing short functional English texts. There were eight main questions used
to interview the students.
5. Students’ Written Texts
The students’ written texts were the individual written texts in which the
students compose an informal memo and an informal invitation letter. The
students’ written texts were used to obtain more information on the improvement of students’ writing skill in composing an informal memo and an informal
invitation letter. Those statements are supported by Burns 1999 who states that
the students’ written texts help the researcher assess the students’ progress in
writing.
6. Students’ Reflection Sheets
The s
tudents’ reflection helped the researcher reflect the action of each
cycle of this study. It also helped students reflect what they had got from the lesson of those days. There were four open- ended questions in the
students’
reflection.
The students’ reflection was distributed to all of X Accountancy 2
students in the end of each cycle.
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