Conducting Main Product Revision

48 c. The students‟ learning styles the strategies that the students usually used while they were reading English texts. In this questionnaire the researcher combined selected response and open ended form items. In selected response items students were asked to choose the appropriate answers that are significant to their actual situation by circling or crossing one or more of the provided options in the questionnaire. In open-ended items the students were allowed to add answers which were not available in the questionnaire. For the materials evaluation, the questions were aimed to find out: a. The respondents‟ opinion about the materials b. The respondents‟ feedback for the materials c. The respondents‟ suggestion and recommendation for the materials In this questionnaire the researcher used both selected response items and open-ended items. For the selected response items, the researcher used Likert scale which was one of the most widely used techniques to measure attitudes. The researcher used Likert scale since it is useful for getting respondents‟ views, judgments, and opinions. By using this scale, the respondents were asked to register their agreements on a scale consisting of five points as follows: 1 = if the respondent strongly disagrees with the statement 2 = if the respondent disagrees with the statement 3 = if the respondent is doubt with the statement 4 = if the respondent agrees with the statement 5 = if the respondent strongly agrees with the statement 49

2. Interview

Interview is an instrument through question and answer that is held by interacting face-to-face between the interviewer and interviewee. In this research, the purpose of using interview was to answer research question number 1 since it was also one of the bases in designing the materials. There are two kinds of interview according to Ary, Jacobs and Rajayieh 2002: 434. They are „structured‟ and „unstructured interview‟. In the first type, each respondent is asked the same set of questions. While in the second type, the questions arise from the situation. In this study, the combination of these two kinds of interviews was conducted to English teachers of grade VIII of SMP N 1 Mungkid. The interview was to clarify four areas of questions, those were: a. Grade VIII students‟ interest in learning English b. Students‟ reading ability c. The implementation of 2006 curriculum in SMP N 1 Mungkid especially for English subject d. The appropriate English reading materials for grade VIII

E. Data Gathering Technique

This sub chapter explains how the researcher gathered the data for this research. As mentioned before, the researcher conducted research and collected information before designing the materials and conducted field test after designing the materials. In conducting research and collecting information, the data were