The first evaluation was done before the try out. In this stage, the materials were evaluated based on the judgment of the experts. The judgments were
obtained from questionnaire given to the experts. 4.
Trying Out the Materials After the process of evaluating the first draft of the materials, they were
implemented to the respondents. It was aimed at getting feedbacks which were used to revise the materials. Furthermore, the implementations were held in class
B to obtain many feedbacks to use in the next stage. The result of the first implementation was then used to re-modify the materials.
5. Evaluation of the Second Draft
In the second evaluation, the researcher evaluated the materials based on the researcher’s reflection on the try-out and the result of the in-depth interview with
the children and the teachers. 6.
Revising and Writing the Final Draft of the Materials Based on the analysis of the opinions and suggestions, the researcher finally
could produce the final draft of the material for English Day program appropriate for children in TKIT Salsabila 2 Banguntapan.
D. The Subject of the Data
The study was conducted at TKIT Salsabila 2 Banguntapan Bantul. The school was located in Jl. Gatotkaca Jurugentong RT 10 RW 34 Banguntapan
Bantul Yogyakarta. This kindergarten had English as an extracurricular subject. It was held every Wednesday for about thirty minutes for each class. There are two
classes, A and B. The school personnel comprised a headmaster, an administrator,
and 4 teachers. There were 23 children in class A and 13 children in class B the children age range was from 4 to 6 years old. In this study, the participants were
the children in class B.
E. Data Collection Techniques and Research Instrument
1. Data Collection Techniques
The data in this research was collected in two separated time. The data of the learners’ needs and characteristics were first collected as a base to develop the
materials. After that the researcher did the second data collection. It was done during the implementation of the materials. The second data was used to revise
the developed materials. 2.
Research Instrument The instruments need to gather the data were interview guidelines and
questionnaire. 1
Interview guidelines The researcher had a series of interviews with the teachers, parents and the
students. The first interviews were used in getting the need analysis to obtain data about learners’ profile, their needs and preferences. Then, during the
implementation of the materials, the researcher also still had a series of interviews with the students, parents and the teachers to evaluate the materials. The
interviews guided the researcher to decide whether the English teaching materials for English Day was suitable or not for them.
2 Questionnaires
