from the text. 5.
Students are to complete the missing letters from the text.
Units Topics
Tasks
8 Business Letters
1. Students are to read and complete the
missing words from the order letter. 2.
Students are to answer the questions given related to the order letter.
3. Students are to complete the missing words
of a complaint letter using the answers provided.
4. Students are to label the picture using the
clues provided. 5.
Students are to make business letters using requirements provided.
In this step, the researcher adapted Kemp’s step Evaluating Materials step
as the realization of RD. However, the designed materials were to be improved. Therefore, the researcher planned to evaluate the designed materials by
distributing the questionnaires and the instructional materials to the respondents. The respondents were two English Teachers of SMK BOPKRI 1 Yogyakarta and
three English Lecturers of English Education Program of Sanata Dharma University. The researcher hoped the respondents gave feedback, comments, and
suggestions, and evaluation. Therefore the researcher could revise and present the final version of the designed materials.
F. Conducting Evaluation Survey
This step consisted of three sections; the description of the respondents; Data Presentation; Respondents’ Comments and Suggestions on the Designed
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1. The Description of the Respondents
The respondents to evaluate the instructional materials consisted of two English Teachers of SMK BOPKRI 1 Yogyakarta, one English
teacher of SMK N 4 Klaten and two English Lecturers of English Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. The two English teachers had
M aster’s Degree S2 while the other had Bachelor’s Degree. Moreover,
the two English Lecturers had Bachelor’s Degree. All of the respondents
had a lot of experiences in teaching which was indicated by their teaching period. All of them had more than five years teaching
experiences. The following table described the respondents of the Preliminary Field Testing.
Table 4.9. The Description of Preliminary Field Testing Respondents Group of
Respondents
Educational Background Teaching Experience
Sex D3
S1 S2
S3 1
1 - 5 5-10
10 M
F
English Teachers
- 1
2 -
- -
- 3
2 1
English Lecturers
- 1
1 -
- -
2 -
1 1
2. Data Presentation
The researcher distributed the questionnaires to the respondents to obtain the evaluations on the designed materials. The feedback given
aimed to show the appropriateness of the materials for the tenth grade students of SMK BOPKRI 1 Yogyakarta. There were four points of
agreements to express the respondents ’ opinion in numbers. The numbers
ranged from 1 to 4. The degrees of agreement are categorized as follows. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
1 : strongly disagree with the statement
2 : disagree with the statement
3 : agree with the statement
4 : strongly agree with the statement
Then, the evaluation data were presented in the following table:
Table 4.10. The Results of the Preliminary Field Testing Questionnaire No
Respondents’ opinion on Central Tendencies
N Mean
1 The goals are well formulated
5 3.6
2 The materials on each unit are relevant to the topic
5 3.2
3 The materials are appropriate for the tenth grade
students of SMK BOPKRI1 Yogyakarta 5
3.6 4
The materials enable the learners to improve their reading ability to understand passages and dialogs.
5 3.4
5 The difficulties of the materials are appropriate for the
tenth grade students of SMK BOPKRI1 Yogyakarta. 5
3.4 6
The variations of tasks are able to support the attainment of the goal and the learning objectives.
5 3.6
7 The use of Interactive Model to teach reading is well
developed. 5
3.8 8
The instructions for every task are clear. 5
3.6
N : Number of respondents
Mean : Indicators of central tendency of the sources set. The Mean was counted using the formulation below:
X = Σ X
N
Note: X : the range point
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Based on the results of the questionnaires, generally, the designed materials were good and suitable for the tenth grade students of SMK BOPKRI1
Yogyakarta. The table of data presentation showed that out of eight statements stated in the questionnaires, there was none statement which had score below 3.
Apparently, most of the scores of the mean were above 3. In addition, the result of the Mean was 3.53. Therefore, based on the results, the researcher concluded that
the respondents agreed that the instructional materials were appropriate and acceptable, although there were some revisions that should be conducted.
3. Respondents’ comments and Suggestions on the Designed Materials
Here, the researcher also distributed open-ended questionnaires to obtain the respondents’ comments, criticism, and feedback on the designed
materials. There were three questions asked. The questions asked about the respondents’ opinions for the designed materials, the weaknesses and
strength, and the suggestions and comments. Those four points of feedback and suggestion were discussed as follow:
a. The reading materials were good and well done. The tasks in the
materials were interesting and suitable with the objectives and applicable for the tenth grade students of SMK BOPKRI 1 Yogyakarta.
b. The instructions for the tasks should be presented clearly.
c. The reading forms which based on cloze procedure should be more in
variety. d.
The pictures should not overlap the tasks. e.
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f. The reading task should be more developed.
G. Revising the Materials
In this step, the researcher adapted Kemp’s step Revising the Materials
as the realization of RD . After obtaining the respondents’ evaluations on the
designed materials, the researcher revised the materials based on the feedback and suggestion of the respondents. Finally, after revising the materials, the
researcher presented the final version of the reading instructional materials. This step consisted two sections; Response to the Res
pondents’ Evaluation and The Presentation of the Designed Materials. Those were discussed as follows.
1. Response to the Respondents’ Evaluation
Dealing with the results of the second part of the Preliminary Field Testing questionnaires, the researcher agreed to revise materials based on
the suggestions given by the respondents which were suitable in order to improve the designed materials. Then, the researcher revised the
designed materials based on the accepted feedback and suggestion. The revisions were as follows.
a. The researcher revised the instructions for the tasks to make it
clear. b.
The researcher changed the position of the missing letter in the middle or at the end of the words based on cloze procedure to make
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