Identifying the Learner and Context Identifying Instructional Goals Sequencing the Content Conducting the Formative Evaluation

30 Figure 4.1 The Blueprint of Text Types Board TEXT TYPES BOARD 22 cm 30 cm 2 cm 3 cm 4,5 cm 12 cm 5 cm PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 31 Figure 4.2 The Design of Text Types Board The learning media consist of four columns on the main board. They are presented as follows: A. Text Type B. Purpose C. General Classification D. Example of the Text TEXT TYPES BOARD TEXT TYPES PURPOSE GENERIC STRUCTURE EXAMPLE OF THE TEXT BOARD THAT CONTAINS INFORMATION 32 Figure 4.3 Main Board Figure 4.2 shows the picture of the main board. The main board contains the column of A Text Type, B Purpose, C Generic Structure, and D Examples of the Text. Figure 4.4 Information Boards 33 Figure 4.3 shows the picture of the second board that contains all of the information about E text type, F purpose, G generic structure, and H examples of the text. The first information board E consists of the text types needed for junior high school learning material. They arenarrative, recount, descriptive, report, and procedure text. All of those texts were taken from Silabus Mata Pelajaran Bahasa Inggris Kurikulum 2013 untuk Tingkat Sekolah Menengah Pertama. The second information board F consists of the purposes of the text. The purpose of narrative text is to amuseentertain the readers and to tell a story. Recount text retells something that happened in the past and to tell a series of past event. Descriptive text is used to describe a particular person, place or thing in detail. The purpose of report texts is to presents information about something, as it is. Procedure texts help readers do or make something. Third information board G discusses the general classification. The contents of the narrative column are orientation, complication, resolution, and reorientation optional. For recount text there are orientation, events, and reorientation. The next is descriptive text which contains identification and description. The report text general classification column consists of general classification and description. The last column is about the general classification of procedure text. It consists of goalaim, materialsequipments, and stepsmethod. 34 The fourth information board H consists of examples of the text. “Snow White” for narrative text, “My Adolescence” text for recount text, “Monas National Monument” for descriptive text, “The Pelican Report” for report text, and “How to Make Sandwich” text for procedure text. For the detail please check the appendix E page 66 The reason why the Text Types Board consists of four columns is based on the basic information that junior high school students need. At least, for learning a text in English learners need to know four important things which are the type of the text, the purpose, the generic structure and the example. Figure 4.5 The Picture of the Text Types Board 35 Figure 4.4 shows the final form of Text Types Board after all of the parts are combined. The Text Types Board size is 30 cm x 18 cm with the color combination like figure 4.1 pages 29 to use this tool student should shift the information board to find the same color. For example, when the students need information about procedure text of which the colu mn’s color is yellow, they just need to match the color by shifting the purpose, generic structure, and example of the text column on the information board.

b. The Problems that Learners Encounter in Using Instructional Media

In the process of the testing of the prototype the researcher found some problems experienced by learners. There were five problems such as basic material for the learning media, learning media size, content especially the examples, learning media neatness, and multiply the learning media. The problems came up when the researcher asked the learners to give a feedback about the learning media. One of the suggestions was to change the basic material with the stronger ones. The learners understand that this learning media is important so they suggested choosing the durable basic material. Learning media size became the next problem that students focused on. The prototype that the researcher brought to the school was too small. The learners suggested making it bigger so all of the learners in the classroom could see it. They also asked the researcher to give other examples. The learners were very excited when they knew about Text Types Board. Thus, they want this learning media could be revised into better one. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 36

c. Problem Solving of the Media Utilization Problems

From the result of step number one and two, the researcher revised the designed material based on the feedback, comments, and suggestions given by the learners. This part helped the researcher understand about how the final Text Types Board would look like. Paying attention into the theory from Wilson and Horch 2002 about developmental characteristics of young adolescents such as physical, intellectual, social, and emotional. In addition, the researcher also considered the suggestions from all of the learners like basic material for the learning media, learning media size, content especially the examples, learning media neatness, and amount the learning media.

6. Conducting the Formative Evaluation

The next step is conducting the formative evaluation. The researcher distributed the questionnaires to three participants; two of them are the lecturers of the English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University and the other is an English teacher. The evaluation was conducted to obtain the feedback on the learning media. The result of the evaluation was used as the input for improving the designed learning media. The description of the evaluators is presented on the next page. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 37 Table 4.2 The Description of the Participants in Formative Evaluation Participants Sex Educational Background Teaching Experiences in year Female Male S1 S2 5 -10 10 The English Language Education Study Program Lecturers. 1 1 2 2 An English Teacher 1 1 1 Notes: S1= an Undergraduate Degree S 2 = a Master’s Degree In order to obtain the participants’ feedback on the designed learning media, there were two kinds of questionnaires which were distributed to the participants. The first questionnaire was close-ended questionnaires and the second was open-ended questionnaires. a. The Result of the Close-Ended Questionnaires This part consisted of several statements with some points of agreement that represented the participants’ opinions on the designed learning media. 1 Indicated that the degree of agreement was very poor, 2 indicated poor, 3 undecided, 4 good, and 5 the degree of agreement was very good. The results of the close-ended questionnaires are presented on the next page. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 38 Table 4.3 The Result of the Formative Evaluation No Statements Degree of Agreement Frequency Central Tendency 1 2 3 4 5 N M 1 The teaching media is well formulated. 1 1 1 3 4 2 The instructional objectives are well formulated. 1 1 1 3 3.7 3 The teaching media is able to meet the objectives. 1 2 3 3.7 4 The topics are well selected and arranged. 1 2 3 3.3 5 The instructions are clear. 2 1 3 3.7 6 Generally, the contents are well elaborated. 2 1 3 4.3 7 Text Type Board is simple enough to cover all of the information needed to learn about types of English text. 1 2 3 3.7 8 Students can use the Text Type Board as a source to learn types of English text. 2 1 3 4.3 9 Generally, the Text Type board will enable to help the students become independent learners. 2 1 3 4.3 10 Students can understand easily when there is a learning media like Text Type Board. 1 1 1 3 4 39 Notes: N: Total RespondentData M: Mean From the results of the close-ended questionnaires, it was found that the grand mean is 3.90. It means that the Text Types Board is appropriate and suitable to help the students learn text types in English. However, there were some aspects that needed to be revised to make it better. b. The Result of the Open-Ended Questionnaires In this part the respondents were free to give suggestions, comments, and opinions on the learning media. The questions in open-ended questionnaire are asked the respondents to give the comments or opinions about Text Types Board. From the results of the feedback the researcher found some good points. They are as follows. 1. The idea was good. 2. The board was interesting with the colorful form. 3. The board was meaningful. 4. The learning media was simple. 5. The learning media could help the learners understand the material. Thus, the researcher found out some points needed to be revised to make the learning media better. They are as follows. 1 The Material Two of the respondents advised the researcher to change the material of the board into more durable one. They stated that the material needed to be changed into plastic not paper. 40 2 The Instructions Two of the respondents suggested adding some instructions about how to use the learning media. They also suggested adding the objective of using this learning media. 3 The Grammar Three of the respondent suggested that the researcher should check the content of the learning media because there were some grammatical mistakes. 4 The Content A respondent advised the researcher should add more examples to help the learners understand the materials. Two respondents also suggested that the researcher should vary the content to make them become more interesting for learners especially themes of the text that are close to them.

7. Revising the Designed Material

From the result of the questionnaires, the researcher revised the designed material based on the feedback, comments, and suggestions given by the respondents. These are the results of the revision: 1 The researcher changed the looks of the learning media into a more colorful one. Actually, the color is already available on the board but the evaluators wanted it to be more colorful to make it interesting. 2 The researcher changed the material of the learning media into the stronger material. Before that, the material was carton paper. 41 3 The researcher changed the examples of the text into the complex one. Before the revision, the examples were too simple. The validators considered that the examples also contained more information. 4 The researcher rechecked the grammar inside the learning media and found several mistakes. 5 The researcher made the instructions about how to use the Text Types Board learning media because before the revision there was no instructionsmanual about how to use the learning media. However the researcher did not add more examples because the researcher thought that this is only a prototype that could be developed by other researchers. The researcher would like to give a space for other researchers.

B. The Effect of Text Types Board for the Learners

This section aims to answer the research question number two in the research questions on how the Text Type Board learning media affect junior high school students learning process. The discussion about how far the availability of Text Types Board helps the students. Then, could Text Types Boardstimulate the students of 7 th and 8 th grades of S MP Putra Tama’s independent learning on the learning process? From the result of the questionnaires that already distributed see table 4.1 p. 24, the researcher wanted to know about the effects to the learners. According to Wilson and Horch 2002, interesting things would make young adolescence learners pay more attention to it. In this case, learning media called Text Types Board have to get students’ attention. The statement number PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 42 four indicated that 94 of the respondents agreed that Text Types Board was an interesting learning media. Then statement number five, 94 of the respondent understood how to use the learning media. That result indicated that this learning media was easy to use. The researcher used the perception theory by Kotler 1995 to make the learning media. This result also indicates that the learning media was designed according to the students’ perception and needs. Talking about the completeness of the content inside, Text Types Board got 76 which means still need several revisions especially for the examples. However, the learners could easily identify the texts using the Text Types Board ’s help. The number of percentage was 100. They could alsouse it individually or in a group. While they used in a group 94 agreed that Text Types Board still helps. According to Bandura 1991 Self-regulation theory is a system of conscious personal management that involves the process of guiding ones own thoughts, behaviors, and feelings to reach goals.This learning media could alsostimulate the learners’ self-regulated ability. By using this learning media, 82 of the respondents agreed that Text Types Board could increase their independent learning. Their identification skill is also increased when Text Types Board help them do the text types assignments because 94 of the respondents agreed that their identification skill is increased. All of the results of the questionnaire indicate that the availability of Text Types Board give positive effects especially for students’ independent learning. The number of the percentage which is above 80 proved that Text Types Board 43 is helpful for the students. They also became motivated to learn about text types in English. According to Nevid 2013, motivation is defined as the process that initiates, guides, and maintains goal-oriented behaviors. The number above 80 from the questionnaire result also indicated that the motivation among the students increased. 44

CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

This chapter summarizes the major findings of the research and the limitations. This chapter covers two parts: conclusions and recommendations. The first part concludes all of the answers to the research questions. The second part presents recommendations for junior high school English teachers and future researchers who intend to develop and elaborate the Text Types Board learning media.

A. Conclusions

This study was conducted to find out how a set of Text Types Board was designed and how Text Types Board learning media affect junior high school students ’ learning process. Therefore, the first research problem dealt with the process of designing the learning media and the second research problem dealt with the effects of Text Types Board for the student’s learning process. The researcher combined Kemp’s 2001 and Dick, Carey, and Carey’s 2009 instructional design model to answer the first question. The following are seven steps used in designing the learning media called Text Types Board. 1. Identifying the needs of the learner 2. Identifying the learner and context 3. Identifying the instructional goals PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI