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conducted after the researcher distributed the questionnaire. It was intended to verify the students’ answers acquired from the questionnaire. The interviewees
consisted of six students, who represented those three major subdivisions as stated.
D. Data Gathering Technique
The data were obtained from the students of the English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University who were taking
Vocabulary I class in the academic year of 20072008. The researcher employed two research instruments to gather the data from the participants, namely a
questionnaire and an interview guide. The questionnaire became the main instrument of the research, while the interview guide was meant to cross check the
data obtained from the questionnaire. The first type of data was obtained by distributing questionnaire. It was
conducted on 30
th
November 2007. There were 74 students in the class. However, there were 13 students who were absent at the time, as a result the researcher were
only able to accomplish responses merely from 61 students. That day, the researcher came to the class, distributed the questionnaire sheets, and then read
each statement of the questionnaire before the students. It was aimed to make the students complete the questionnaire faster and simultaneously as well as to avoid
any misconception. Afterwards, as the data were all collected and processed, the researcher
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was aimed to follow up and verify the statements in the questionnaire in order to gain further information. Not all students as the research participants were
interviewed. There were six students who were interviewed. The interview was conducted on 13
th
and 14
th
February 2008. Besides, the researcher also employed the Vocabulary I students’ final
scores. Those scores were used as a means to answer the second research question where the researcher attempted to find out the correlation between students’
perceptions and their scores. In other words, the researcher endeavored to correlate the data gathered from questionnaire and interview with the scores the
students acquired at the end of semester.
E. Data Analysis Technique
The researcher worked on students’ perceptions and their contributions to their vocabulary mastery in Vocabulary I class. Consequently, he emphasized his
research on two objects, namely the students’ perceptions and the results of their final scores. Firstly, dealing with the students’ perceptions, the researcher counted
the number of circles on each degree of agreement of each item, “strongly agree”, “agree”, “strongly disagree”, and “disagree” by setting them to a table.
Afterwards, the researcher calculated the raw data into percentage and interpreted them by elaborating them with the data acquired from the interview. The next step
was counting the average of each degree of agreement. This calculation pursued one goal that is to inform the researcher about their tendency on each item. The
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