11 common in order to communicate each other, instead of using English. The good thing was,
SMPN 2 Ampel has a language laboratory with good facilities like, projector, 20 units of CPU, headphone, etc to support the data collection process. The process of data collection
was conducted by the English teachers of SMPN 2 Ampel and the writer.
B. Participants
The participants of this study were one third of total population on the same grade which consisted of two different classes 8C and 8D out of 6 classes, which were one-third
of the total population at the same level, Those two classes consisted of 63 students, 29 students belonged to 8C class and 34 students belonged to 8D class of SMPN 2 Ampel, so it
was a representative and sufficient number to conduct a research. Being the eight-grader students would be the perfect stage on learning English subject
in SMP level because of the less pressure condition, if compared with the seventh grader who are tend to adapt with the new school environment or even the ninth grader who are focused
on the national examination ahead. This consideration would be second reason of choosing the eight-grader students as the subject. Another reason was this method of sampling
relatively simple, where the writer only took two classes as the subject of this study.
C. Instrument of Data Collection
A fifteen-statement-questionnaire was distributed to the students as the instrument of data collection. As students’ first language was Indonesian, the questionnaire is adapted by
using Indonesian to avoid misunderstanding. The questionnaire was given once on each class, and it was distributed in post activity in each meeting. The questionnaire was adapted from
Peacock 1997 and Bagus 2011. Peacock 1997 provided a questionnaire, which used scale 1 to 5 to measure the attitude toward authentic material. Whereas, Bagus 2011
12 provided an adapted questionnaire also from Peacock, then he simplified the questionnaire by
converting Peacock’s scale into 4 statements answer, like “strongly disagree”, “disagree”, “strongly” and “agree”. This simplification was done to make it easier when the writer
decided whether it is a positive or negative response. As the focus of this study, attitude was measured by three aspects; like cognitive, affective and conative. Whereas, statements 1 to 5
were purposed to measure affective component, statements number 6 to 10 is purposed to measure the cognitive component, and the rest statement 11 to 15 is purposed to measure
conative component.
D. Data Collection Procedure
Before the research was conducted, writer asked formal letter of permission from the writer’s faculty and then it was given to SMPN 2 Ampel. Next, the writer asked informal
permission by directly seeing the headmaster of SMPN 2 Ampel. Before the teaching and learning activity started, the participants or the students were
given explanation about what was meant by authentic material, so authentic materials would not sound strange to the students. Then, some videos from the Internet were given as a
warming up activity and to grab students or participant attention and interest. Then authentic materials were given to the participants during the teaching and learning activity. Such as, a
song was played repeatedly and participants were asked to fill some missing words of lyrics. As it was reading became the main thing to teach, participants were given article from
newspaper and website on the article and websites. Then, participants were provided and given some comprehension questions to answer based on the materials. For the reading
activity where authentic materials were used, the writer a student-teacher and the teacher had discussed, prepared and taken the appropriate authentic materials, which matched to
students’ competency level. There were two meetings in each classroom, so in total there
13 were four meetings. By the end of the teaching and learning activity of English subject, the
participants were asked to answer to the 15 statements by choosing some options.
E. Data Analysis Procedure
