Revising the Product Conducting Main Field Testing

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4. Conducting Preliminary Field Testing

After developing the designed materials, the researcher conducted preliminary field testing in order to evaluate the designed materials to gain feedback and suggestions of the designed materials. The researcher distributed questionnaires to two English lecturers who are considered as the experts in English language teaching and learning. The results of the questionnaire used as the consideration to revise the designed materials.

5. Revising the Product

After analyzing the result of the evaluation of preliminary field testing, the designed materials were revised to make the designed materials more suitable and applicable in class. The revised materials would be presented as the final version of the designed materials.

6. Conducting Main Field Testing

After the final version of the designed materials was ready to be taught to the tour guides as the learners, the researcher taught the learners using the final version of the designed materials. Finishing teaching the final version of the designed materials, the researcher distributed questionnaires to the learners to evaluate the materials. The purpose of learners’ evaluation was to gain feedback and suggestions to find out whether or not the learners enjoyed learning speaking through the designed materials. 51

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

This chapter is divided into two major parts. The first part presents the steps on how the researcher designed task-based English speaking materials for the tour guides of Kalisuci Gunungkidul. The second part presents the designed materials for the tour guides of Kalisuci Gunungkidul.

A. The Steps in Designing Task-Based English Speaking Materials

To answer the first research problem, namely, how task-based English speaking materials for the tour guides of Kalisuci Gunungkidul are designed, there were five steps to design the speaking materials. The five steps were research and information collecting, planning, developing preliminary form of product, preliminary field testing, and main product revision. The five steps are explained in the following points.

1. Research and Information Collecting

To collect the data of the target learners, the researcher collected data which consisted of indentifying the goals, conducting instructional analysis or identifying the speaking topics needed, and analyzing learners and context or identifying the learners’ needs.

a. Identify Instructional Goal

In this phase, the researcher conducted a small observation to indentify the results of the goals of learning English speaking skills by observing seven tour