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3.2.2 Participants of the Evaluation Survey

This survey was aimed to obtain the opinions and attitudes toward the designed materials. The participants of the survey research on this project were the teachers of St. Aloysius Gonzaga English Language Institute. This survey research was really needed so that the writer could revise and evaluate the designed materials.

3.3 Research Setting

The survey was carried out in St. Aloysius Gonzaga English Language Institute in Taunggyi, Myanmar.

3.4 Research Instrument

In this research, the writer used questionnaires as a research tool. According to Seliger and Schohamy 1989, a questionnaire should be a printed form of data collection containing statements to which subjects respond. There were two kinds of questionnaires. First one was distributed to the advanced level students of St. Aloysius Gonzaga English language Institute in Taunggyi, Myanmar and the second was given out to the teachers in that Institute and some lecturers from English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. In this study, the writer used a closed form of questionnaire in which the options were provided in order to get the accurate information of the participants’ opinions based on the provided options. 28 The questionnaires consisted of three parts. The first part was the introduction about the questionnaire and its instruction. Then second part was the participant’s profile – name, age, education, gender, occupation and future goal. In addition, there were more items in participant’ profile for evaluators like name, age, gender, future goal, educational background, teaching experiences and opinions on learning English. Overall, two different questionnaires were to acquire the data of participants’ opinions about the importance of language learning.

3.5 Data Gathering

The questionnaire for the target needs analysis was distributed to the advanced level students of St. Aloysius Gonzaga English Language Institute in Taunggyi, Myanmar. According to the writer’s condition, the writer was not able to go to the field to conduct survey research. It was distributed on 12 th March 2008. It was sent through e-mail and it will be operated under corporation of the rector of the institute. For the evaluation survey research, the writer sent the designed materials and questionnaire to the rector of the institute through e-mail. With the help of rector, he distributed both questionnaires and designed materials to the teachers of the Institute and the results of their evaluation were sent back to writer through e- mail. 29

3.6 Data Analysis