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E. Data Gathering and Research Procedures
Conducting the research, the writer used some technique in order to gather the data from the respondents. Besides, there are some procedures which sould be
done in order to conducting this research. Below are data gathering and research procedures used by the writer.
1. Data Gathering Technique
The data gathering technique in Research and Information Collecting was by conducting an interview and distributing questionnaire and MI inventory which
is adopted from Amstrong’s 1994. The interview was conducted by interviewing the coordinator of English Mastery Program. For the other instruments, which are
the questionnaire and MI inventory, were distributed to students Level 1 of English Mastery Program. The MI inventory was aimed to find and measure the
dominant intelligences of the students. The students were given some statements which describe various behaviors in the list see Appendix C. The descriptions of
the intelligences are represented through the statements of behavior in each number in the table below.
Table 3. 3 The descriptions of the Intelligences are Represented through the Statements of Behavior
Number of each statement Intelligences
1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 36, 43, 50 Linguistic
2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 37, 44, 51 Logical – Mathematical
3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 38, 45, 52 Visual – Spatial
4, 11, 18, 25, 32, 39, 46, 53 Bodily – Kinesthetic
5, 12, 19, 26, 33, 40, 47, 54 Musical
6, 13, 20, 27, 34, 41, 48, 55 Interpersonal
7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56 Intrapersonal
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distributed to a lecturer and three English tutors of English Mastery Program. The questioner was a structured questionnaire which has limited answers see
Appendix E.
2. Research Procedure
Research procedure presented in this part was adopted from the theoretical framework in Chapter II and five steps of RD method used in this study. The
steps are discussed as follows:
a. Research and Information Collecting
In this step, some steps were done in order to gain data needed in this study. Therefore, the writer started with asking permission to coordinator of
English Mastery Program of Titian Foundation, Bayat, Klaten, to conduct the research there. After asking for permission, the writer continued with conducting
the students’ intelligences observation through distributing MI inventory and also distributing questionnaire to gather students’ opinion, lacks, and needs. Besides,
the interview was done by interviewing the coordinator of the English Mastery Program. Some relevant books, documents, journals, articles, and any information
about MI were read broad the writer’s knowledge about the theories applied in this study.
b. Planning
In Planning step, the writer started to define students’ intelligences, stating the general purpose, goals and listing topics, specifying the learning objectives,
and listing the subject content. The writer used the data obtained from the
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