54 There were 14 junior high schools included in this study. As a respondent in this
study, the number of the teachers is different from one school to another. There is only one respondent from SMP BOPKRI 5 and SMP Joannes Bosco. Two
respondents are taken from SMPN 1, SMPN 9, SMPN 12, SMPN 15, SMPN 16, SMP Pangudi Luhur 1, SMP Stella Duce 1, SMP Stella Duce 2, SMP Kristen
Kalam Kudus, and SMP Kanisius Gayam. Three respondents are taken from SMP Maria Immaculata Marsudirini and five respondents are taken from SMPN 5.
Thus, as the total, there are 30 English teachers from 14 different junior high schools in the city of Yogyakarta.
The researcher only chose the junior high schools which are A-accredited. The reason to do so is that those schools fulfill all eight educational standards
published by The Board of Culture and Education Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan=Depdikbud. The educational standards include: standard of content
Standar Isi, standard of process Standar Proses, standard of graduate competence Standar Kompetensi Lulusan, standard of educator and educational
staff Standar Pendidikdan Tenaga Kependidikan, standard of facilities Standar Sarana dan Prasarana, standard of management Standar Pengelolaan,
standard of funding Standar Pembiayaan, and standard of evaluation Standar Penilaian.
C. Research Instruments
The researcher used questionnaire and interview as the instruments of this particular study. The researcher employed quantitative and qualitative data. The
quantitative data were taken from close-ended questionnaire while the qualitative data were taken from interview result. Ary et. al. 2002 state that utilizing
55 questionnaire as a data gathering device is really helpful for money and time
constraint consideration. It is possible to comprise a large number of the subjects and can guarantee confidentiality, which may elicit more truthful responses.
While the interview is seen useful for getting the stories behind the participant’s lived experience Mc. Namara 1994. By making use of a questionnaire and
interview, the researcher intended to assess data about the teachers consisting of their thoughts and perceptions in accordance with the implementation of ELT
media.
1. Questionnaire
The researcher especially used the close-ended questionnaire as the main instrument in gathering data of this study. The questionnaire was divided into two
main parts, the understanding and view part and the action part. There are 15 statements in the first section which are related to teacher’s feeling and point of
view of media. In this section, the researcher used the Likert scale, a scale with a number of points that provide ordinal scale measurement Wiersma, 1995. Each
statement was provided with four column of number from 1 to 4 which represents the level of the respondent’s agreement. The high score represents positive answer
in responding the questionnaire, while the low score represents the negative answer.
The scores were as followed: - 1 is for totally disagree
- 2 is for disagree - 3 is for agree
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56 There are four statements in the second section; they are related to media
application in English language teaching. These statements cover four language aspects in English language teaching namely listening, reading and writing. In
short, this particular questionnaire was provided to get the data about how the teacher applies media in promoting the students’ listening, speaking, reading and
writing ability. The statements were answered by giving rank to each given choices about the frequency of using the media in improving each language skills
of the students. It ranges from 1 to 10, which 1 refers to the most used medium and 10 is the least used one. As mention before, the researcher focused on the
software part of media to represent action part of perception. This questionnaire was followed by another similar questionnaire which
the researcher provides in order to collect additional information to support the main one. The questionnaire is about the frequency of using hardware media to
support software media in delivering teaching material. In this particular section, the researcher provides various hardware media, from the traditional to the digital
ones. This section functions to gain the data about the teacher’s preference in using hardware media to deliver the software ones. The researcher also needs to
know to what extend do the teachers deal with hardware media. It especially refers to the regulation of minister of national education that Indonesian teachers
should have the competency to use ICT in teaching their subject.
2. Interview
Same as the last questionnaire, interview plays a role as additional data collection instrument. It is set to make certain of the data and also to recheck the
teacher’s answer in the questionnaire. The interview list contains some questions PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
57 about the use of ELT media that are not written in the questionnaire. It covers in
what condition does the teacher decide to use media, what kind of criteria do the media should have so they can be utilized by the teacher, whether the teacher
finds some difficulties in utilizing the media or not and what is the teacher suggestion to make the use of ELT media is more effective.
There were only three teachers who are invited to join the interview. The researcher decided to only choose three teachers representative to make the
interview effective. Those interviewees were invited to the interview section for they represented different criteria of the questionnaire result. The first interviewee
was invited because she has a very positive perception of ELT media, whether when it deals with understanding, view or action. The second interviewee was
invited because he has a positive of both understanding and action toward ELT media, but he negatively responded to one of the statements of view dimension.
Meanwhile, the third interviewee was invited for her result which shows that she has both positive understanding and view toward ELT media but negative action
toward media application in the classroom.
D. Data Gathering Techniques
As mentioned, the questionnaire was utilized in order to collect the main data to answer the question of this study. The questionnaire was distributed to 30
English teachers of junior high school. The teachers were randomly chosen from A-accredited schools in the city of Yogyakarta. There were some steps that the
researcher had to do to make the data collection process goes smoothly. The researcher went to each of the schools and passed both recommendation letter
from Sanata Dharma University and research permission letter from Major of the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
