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Study Program of Sanata Dharma University, one lecturer of the Mechanical Engineering Study Program of Sanata Dharma University, and one English
Instructor in a private English Course. The respondents were chosen in order to enrich the researcher with evaluations, criticisms, feedback, and comments on the
designed materials.
B. Research Participants
This section describes the respondents of pre-design activities and post- design activities.
1. Pre-Design Activities
In pre-design activities questionnaire was distributed to collect the data about the students’ needs and interests in learning English. The respondents of the
pre-design activities were the third semester and the seventh semester students of the Mechanical Engineering Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. The
sample of the third semester students were the students in Material class group A. Meanwhile, the sample of the seventh semester students were the students in
Tenaga Surya class group A. The total number of the students was 55. The two
groups of students were chosen due to the necessity of knowing needs of English from the students of the Mechanical Engineering Study Program to achieve the
understanding of overall needs of the students. The third semester students were chosen since they are considered to be
new in the study program. They can give description on what obstacles they find in their early year studying in the study program. Furthermore, the third semester
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students were chosen because they were the target students whom the English subject is going to be obliged for.
Meanwhile, the seventh semester students were chosen since they had enough experience in learning in the study program; therefore they understood
their needs, interests, and learning styles. In addition, the seventh semester students were also known for their being aware of the working world. They have a
better awareness toward the necessity of mastering English to equip themselves in order to compete in the working world.
In order to enrich the data around the students needs from point of view of the study program, the Chair Person of the Mechanical Engineering Study
Program of Sanata Dharma University was interviewed. He was chosen as the respondent because he understood the students’ needs. Moreover, he also knew
about the purpose of establishing English subject itself.
2. Post-Design Activities
The respondents of post-design activities were a lecturer of the English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University, a lecturer of
the Mechanical Engineering Study Program of Sanata Dharma University, and an English Instructor in a private English Course. The questionnaire was distributed
in order to measure the ability of the designed materials to develop the students’ English proficiency and also to check the suitability of the designed materials to
the needs of the students. The respondents were chosen because they had a lot of experience in designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating English
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instructional materials. Respondents’ description of the post-design survey research was presented in Table 3.1.
C. Research Instruments
