4.
Implementing the Designed Materials
After designing the materials, the researcher conducted the tryout of the designed materials. The materials were tried out to L1A class of EFH 2013 for
nine-day teaching-learning activities. The implementation was made as means to get the evaluation from the children, parents, teachers about the developed
materials.
5. Assessing the Materials
The assessment was done by giving a set of questionnaire, coincided with the teacher’s manuals book, to two experts of material design in EFH program.
They were lecturers of English for Children concentration in English Language Education Program, Yogyakarta State University, who also the senior teachers
and committees of EFH. The assessment was in the form of experts’ judgements towards the revised materials.
6. Conducting Evaluation
The developed materials were revised and evaluated by looking to the analysis of the data and information that has been collected through questionnaires
distributed to the parents in the end of the program, through interviews to the L1A class parents, teachers and children of EFH 2013 and also through the experts’
judgments. Those collected data were important as it was the only resources to look out whether the developed materials accomplished the expectation or needed
to be revised.The evaluation was done as the whole materials had identified
whether it reached the qualification of a good material design based on the theories and the collected data and information from the respondents.
7. Developing the Final Product of Materials
Based on the second evaluation and the accumulation of collection data from the theories, teachers, children, parents and experts, the final draft of
designed materials were developed and produced. This product was expected that it could be used effectively in teaching L1 children of EFH for many years.
C. Research Instruments
The study applied some instruments to collect the data. The data were collected using questionnaires and interview guidelines. A questionnaire is an
instrument to gather information through the participants’ written responses to a list of questions, whereas an interview is a method used to collect information
from the respondent through an ask-and-answer activity led by the interviewer Arikunto: 1993. The questionnaires in this study were in the forms of both open-
ended and closed-ended questionnaires.
1. First questionnaire
The first questionnaire was an open-ended questionnaire that was distributed in the beginning of the EFH program to L1A parents. It was aimed to
get information about children’s characteristics, needs, profile of intelligences, interests; and also about
parent’s opinions, aims and expectation about EFH for their children. Then, the result of the data was used as consideration of needs
analysis to develop the materials and to measure the developed materials.
