Table 3.4: Quantitative data conversion Suharto, 2006 Scales
Categories Interval of Mean
1 Strongly Disagree
1.00-1.79 2
Disagree 1.80-2.59
3 Neither Agree or Disagree
2.60-3.39 4
Agree 3.40-4.19
5 Strongly Agree
4.20-5.00
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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
This chapter presents the findings and discussions of the research. The findings on the needs analysis, the course grid, the story board, the first draft, the
experts’ judgment, and the final draft of the web-based writing learning materials are further analyzed and discussed.
A. Findings 1. Needs Analysis
Needs analysis was conducted to gather information from participants used for making the web-based writing learning materials. A set
of questionnaire was used by the researcher to collect the data.
a. The Description of the ParticipantsStudents Table 4.1: The participantsstudents
Group of respondents Average age
Sex Male
Female Students of class XA
15 10
22
The respondents of this research were students of SMA N 1 Sewon class XA. The
students’ age ranges from 14 to 16 at the average age of 15 years old. There are total 32 students at class XA consists of 10 male students
and 22 female students.
b. The Description of the Target Needs
The description of the target needs can be classified as three parts i.e. necessities, lacks, and wants Hutchinson and Waters, 1986. Necessities are
simply matters that targets have to know or achieve considering the situation in which the targets would be involved. Meanwhile necessities for high
school students have been defined in standard competences and basic competences, lacks and wants of target should be found out through the
instruments.
1 Necessities
As stated in the standard of competences and basic competences, tenth grade students of high school in their second semester should be able
to express meaning of short functional text and simple essays in the form of narrative, descriptive, and news item in the daily lives context. In this
study, the focus will be on the second basic competence i.e. express meaning and rhetoric steps in simple essays accurately, fluently, and
acceptably in the daily lives context in the form of narrative, descriptive, and news item text.
2 Lacks
Lacks are the targets’ gap between what they have already known their current proficiency and will know the target proficiency. The
analyses of the target lacks are presented below.
