Research Participants Research Instruments

24 3. Develop Preliminary Form of Product In this step, the researcher prepared the instructional materials, handbooks, evaluation devices. It was related to the Kemp’s instructional design in the case of selecting teaching learning activities and resources. Since the researcher chose CIRC, the materials and the activities were designed according to the goal of the CIRC. Besides, the materials were selected based on the learners’ characteristic, learners’ needs and ability 4. Preliminary Field Testing In this step, it was related to the Kemp’s step: evaluation. The design was evaluated by people who deal with reading skill training. Based on that reason, the researcher chose one English teacher and two PBI lecturers to evaluate the design. The purpose was to gain feedback of the product. 5. Product revision In this step, the researcher gathered the feedback from preliminary field testing. The feedback was used to revise the design.

B. Research Participants

The participants were classified into some group, as follows: 1. The participants in the research and information gathering step The participants in this step were the students grade X of senior high school and the English teacher who has responsibility for English lesson for the students in Grade X. The age range was 15-16 years old. The students would be asked to fill out the questionnaires which aim to collect information about their interest in reading and writing. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 25 2. The participants in the preliminary testing step In this step, the researcher would distribute questionnaire and interview two lecturers of English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University and one English teacher of SMA BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta to obtain the feedback to help revise and improve the designed materials. The description of the participants in the preliminary step was presented in Table 3.1. Table 3.1: The Description of the Participants No Participants Educational background Teaching experiences Sex S1 S2 S3 1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 20 F M 1. Lecturer A 2. Lecturer B 3. Teacher

C. Research Instruments

1. Instruments in the research and information gathering step In this step, the researcher would apply both questionnaire and interview checklist to obtain all the information related to the learners’ characteristics. The questionnaire would be distributed to the students to know their interest in learning English especially in reading and writing skill. The type of the questionnaire was open questionnaire because the participant could answer the questions freely. The researcher distributed questionnaire because it did not take much time. Meanwhile, the interview checklist was applied to gather the information about the materials and PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 26 teaching method from the English teacher of SMA BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta. The researcher did interview because the researcher would get more information. 2. Instrument in preliminary testing In this step, the researcher would distribute questionnaire and conduct interview to obtain the feedback about the designed materials from the lecturers of English Study Program and the teacher of senior high school. The questionnaire in this step was expert validation questionnaire. The results would help the researcher to improve and revise the designed materials.

D. Data Gathering Technique