Learners and Contexts Methodology

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B. Research Setting

The research was conducted in the English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. The preliminary test was distributed to the sixth semester students of ELESP Sanata Dharma University on Mrican Micro Teaching Laboratory on April 4, 2016. The preliminary test involved the sixth semester students of ELESP Sanata Dharma University who took Micro Teaching course. The research was conducted for three months starting from May until June 2016.

C. Research Participants

There were two groups of participants in this research. They were the participants of data collection and the participants of material validation. The researcher discussed the two groups of participant as follows:

1. Participants of Data Collection

The researcher needed to determine the population and the sample of the research. Accordingly, the target population of this research was the Micro Teaching students C of the ELESP Sanata Dharma University batch 20152016 which consists of 14 students. They were selected since the test was designed for the sixth semester students and it was important to get sufficient information and data from these students before designing the test. 26

2. Participants of Test Validation

The researcher needed to develop a suitable test. Hence, the researcher needed experts to evaluate the designed test. There were three lecturers of ELESP Sanata Dharma University to evaluate the designed test. They were all teach vocabulary in ELESP Sanata Dharma University. They were given a questionnaire to assess and to give feedback about the designed test whether or not it was appropriate.

D. Research Instrument and Data Gathering Technique

There were two kinds of test used in this research. The researcher conducted the two test in order to get the sufficient data and information related to the research.

a. Preliminary Test

The first test was a preliminary test which was distributed to the sixth semester students of ELESP Sanata Dharma University. The goal of the preliminary test was to gather the information of their vocabulary size. Hence, the researcher employed Nation’s Vocabulary Test 2007 from Victoria University of Wellington. There were 140 multiple-choice items with 10 items from each 1,000 family level with the form of a short non-defining context. The time allocation for the preliminary test was 50 minutes. The tested words, which were selected from British National Corpus BNC composed by Nation 2006, are listed as follows: