28 In this study, the questionnaire was in the form of Likert scale. Ary et al.
2002 state that Likert scale assesses attitudes toward the topic by presenting a set of statements about the topic and asking respondents to indicate for each whether
they strongly agree, agree, are undecided, disagree, or strongly disagree p.224. The researcher omitted the undecided option in order to avoid misunderstanding
because the undecided option did not contribute response in this study. Therefore, the researcher used four options to answer the research problems, which were
strongly agree SA, agree A, strongly disagree SD, and disagree D. There were 36 close-ended questions in the questionnaire in this research.
The questions were divided into four parts. The first part is about students’ perception on the implementation of a scripted role play. The second part is about
students’ perception on the impact of a scripted role play. The third part is about students’ perception in performing the scripted role play, and the last part is about
students’ evaluation in performing the scripted role play. The questionnaire could be seen in Appendix C.
2. Interview Protocol
In this study, the researcher used an interview protocol. Ary et al. 2002 state that an interview is
used to gather data on subjects’ opinions, beliefs, and feelings about the situation in their own words. There are three advantages of
doing interview based on Ary et al. 2002. They are 1 supplying large volumes of in-
depths data rather quickly, 2 providing insight on participants’ perspectives, the meaning of events for the people involved, information about the
29 site, and perhaps information on unanticipated issues, and 3 allowing immediate
follow- up and clarification of participants’ response. Therefore the interview in
this study was used to verify the result of questionnaire. In addition, the interview questions could be seen in Appendix E. In this study, the researcher chose the
interviewee students based on the lecturer’s suggestion.
E. Data Gathering Technique
In this study, the data were gathered by distributing the questionnaire and conducting the interview. The researcher distributed the questionnaires after
getting permission from the lecturer of Play Performance class on May 26
th
and 27
th
, 2015. The interview was conducted after gathering the data from the questionnaires. The questionnaires were used to i
nvestigate the students’ perception on the use of a scripted role play in Play Performance class and to find
out how the scripted role play is implemented to improve speaking ability in Play Performance class. The interview was used to find out whether a scripted role play
improves speaking ability in Play Performance class. This study was conducted on May 26
th
and 27
th
, 2015 to the sixth semester of English Language Education Study Program students in academic year
20142015 of Sanata Dharma University in Play Performance class. The researcher explained the purpose of this research. It took about 20 minutes to
complete the questionnaires. After the data from the questionnaires were acquired, the researcher conducted an interview with thirteen students from two different
classes. Actually there were nineteen students to be interviewed but only thirteen
30 students came. The thirteen students were the actors and actresses who performed
on the stage in Play Performance class.
F. Data Analysis Technique
After gathering the data, the researcher analyzed the data gained from the questionnaire and interview. The questionnaires were used to answer the research
problems which are stated in the Chapter I. The interview was used to verify the data in the questionnaire.
The researcher distributed the questionnaire to all the students who joined Play Performance course in classes A and B in order to know the answer to the
problems. There were four degrees of response to the statement in the questionnaire: 1 was strongly disagree SD, 2 was disagree D, 3 was agree A,
and 4 was strongly agree SA. Then, the researcher calculated the number of students who chose those options and presented into percentage. Since the
questions in questionnaire were close-ended questions, the participants’
perception were shown statistically. The researcher calculated students’ answers using the formula below:
X : Sum of respondents’ answer for each statement
N : Number of respondent
